The Tribunal has now issued its ruling (pdf) in a case in which I challenged the Information Commissioner's acceptance of a claim by the Cabinet Office that it had no record of who drafted the dossier's executive summary at the time that the worst sexing up happened. The Tribunal partially held in my favour, while siding with the Commissioner and government on the substantive point. However, it did criticise the Cabinet Office for the lack of any audit trail.

In this sense, the ruling represents a good outcome. the Tribunal said:

"we are not very impressed by the quality of the record keeping… this was on any view an extremely important document and we would have expected, or hoped for, some audit trail revealing who had drafted what."

Having conceded that its spin doctors may have contributed to the key changes at this time, which included the fabrication of a number of highly disupted judgements such as the 45 minutes claim, the government cannot now prove that it did not sex the dossier up.

New Statesman article