Striking the Right Balance between Privacy and Public Protect ion

[Ian G Batten]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Richard Clayton wrote:
> In fact you did have no option!! In such circumstances you should quite
> definitely have refused to supply the information!

They were requesting information from logs I didn't have, so it never
came to that.  Had I had the information, I would perhaps have probed
slightly more before finally releasing it, but I looked, found I hadn't,
and said so.

> The point is that _you_ are the person releasing the information and
> therefore _you_ must be convinced that the tests in 29(3) have been met
> (eg: that unless you release this information to the LEA they will be
> unable to proceed with their investigation of a crime).

I wasn't told that.  Which I suppose isn't surprising.

> The point of the police filling in the part of the form that explains
> (or otherwise letting you know about ) the "supporting context" is so

It said ``serious crime'' or something.

ian