Hello guys. I am David Smith, I did the original FOI request on the whatdotheyknow site.
I'm going to word an appeal to the IOC in an attempt to get more information out in the air, so to speak.
If I could ask some of you to also make requests? More genuine requests will help the cause, as a judgement in one case will make it very difficult to turn down other requests if they are reliant on the same defence.
Because the process takes so long, we need new requests. For instance, I submitted mine in January, since then we have had Bodugi and Globet failures of relevance. Investigations into the downfall of these would be handy.
You will get turned down if you ask for information already in the public domain, so you have to think of something new, but there is plenty, ie minutes of meetings, internal emails, emails from a specific person regarding an issue. You have to be specific (so not to overrun the cost limit) and also patient, it'll probably take about two months from start to finished internal review.
Don't let emotion get too much in the way, we need to use the law to fight our cause and release as much information as it can.
In the small picture, this won't change much. We are not likely to get any money from Canbet or anyone else. In the bigger picture, this may lead to reorganisation of the GC itself in a way more favourable for punters. It is laughable that a regulator can say 'oh, we can't take away their licence, because then they are not likely to pay the customers'. Basically meaning once a book has a licence, there is a way to 'play' the regulator (like Canbet did). A total failure of the regulatory system.
I'm going to word an appeal to the IOC in an attempt to get more information out in the air, so to speak.
If I could ask some of you to also make requests? More genuine requests will help the cause, as a judgement in one case will make it very difficult to turn down other requests if they are reliant on the same defence.
Because the process takes so long, we need new requests. For instance, I submitted mine in January, since then we have had Bodugi and Globet failures of relevance. Investigations into the downfall of these would be handy.
You will get turned down if you ask for information already in the public domain, so you have to think of something new, but there is plenty, ie minutes of meetings, internal emails, emails from a specific person regarding an issue. You have to be specific (so not to overrun the cost limit) and also patient, it'll probably take about two months from start to finished internal review.
Don't let emotion get too much in the way, we need to use the law to fight our cause and release as much information as it can.
In the small picture, this won't change much. We are not likely to get any money from Canbet or anyone else. In the bigger picture, this may lead to reorganisation of the GC itself in a way more favourable for punters. It is laughable that a regulator can say 'oh, we can't take away their licence, because then they are not likely to pay the customers'. Basically meaning once a book has a licence, there is a way to 'play' the regulator (like Canbet did). A total failure of the regulatory system.
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