The legislative programme of this Government has—unsurprisingly, given its widely stated reformist ambitions—attracted close attention from those interested […]
Freedom of Information Act 2000
This post is in two parts. The first post (available here) addressed the detail of McCombe LJ’s judgment […]
Two recent Court of Appeal decisions raise some interesting constitutional questions about the status of Tribunals in the […]
The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) came fully into force on the 1 January 2005. There […]
Freedom of information (FOI) reform has often been slow in Australia. There was a decade (and a change […]
On Thursday 26th March the Supreme Court concluded, to the delight of The Guardian and the dismay of […]
The Administrative Court is the latest body to become involved in the on-going saga related to disclosure of […]
The requirement of Royal Assent for bills which have passed through our democratic institutions is well known. Those […]
The Freedom of Information Act, which came into force on 1 January 2005, provides under s.53 for a […]
ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 the Upper Tribunal allowed an appeal, reversing decisions of the Information Commissioner relating to […]