Jun 29, 2016 | Data Privacy, European Policy, Fairness, Government policy
A consensus already appears to be emerging among legal commentators that many UK organisations will need to comply with the provisions of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation regardless of the progress of the UK’s path to Brexit. The GDPR was due to...
Jun 16, 2016 | European Policy, Fairness, Government policy
The Information Law and Policy Centre is contributing to an Exeter University project which considers the impact of a possible Brexit from the EU on the UK’s communication industries. The Centre has assisted two stakeholder workshops with the project team, led...
Jun 2, 2016 | Access to information, Fairness, In court, Uncategorized
The Supreme Court welcomes and informs the public, but how does an artist interpret the coded theatre of the hearings? Isobel William’s new exhibition of drawings, sketched from the public seats of the Supreme Court with the court’s permission, and other...
May 11, 2016 | Fairness, Uncategorized
This brief by Professor Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, discusses the current issues affecting UK stakeholders in the cross-border audio-visual services sector. It is written in light of the replies to the public consultation on Directive 2010/13/EU on...
Apr 28, 2016 | Fairness, Freedom of information, Government policy, Privacy
On Wednesday 27 April the government’s preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Apr 15, 2016 | Copyright, Fairness, Privacy
On 11 April 2016, Christina Angelopoulos of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Stijn Smet of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University gave a presentation at the BILETA Conference (which took place this year at the...
