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Jump to full article: Hoover's, 2002-11-04
Author: Ashley Crossland
Intro: he Supreme Court of New South Wales is to decide if disorganisation is a defence for non-disclosure. Myrian Cauvin is seeking access to a 1,700-file tobacco industry archive currently held by the Tobacco Institute of Australia (TIA) organisation. This is to aid her representative law suit against seven Australian tobacco companies. The lawyer for the TIA claims the 106-box archive is only partially indexed, and finding the documents Cauvin requests would be too costly an exercise, estimated at $A24,380 plus GST. The documents were formerly held by law firm Clayton Utz, which had advised the TIA to keep the information in a disorganised way to aid its interests.
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