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...
Jun 1, 2016 | Access to information, Freedom of information
The Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice is a new open access, peer reviewed online journal launched in April. The journal aims to encourage interdisciplinary debate of current information rights issues from a variety of policy, practitioner and academic...
May 19, 2016 | Access to information, Copyright, News media
On the 3rd November 2015, a workshop was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London, to discuss potential legal responses to threats to the production of news in a digital environment. Particular attention was paid to copyright. The workshop was...
Apr 13, 2016 | Access to information, Fairness, ILPC Research and Publications, Journalism
An update on developments in digital court reporting by the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Judith Townend How should courts be reported in the digital age? It’s a question that’s been preoccupying me for a number of years. My understanding of the...
Mar 23, 2016 | Access to information, Government policy, ILPC Research and Publications, News media
A new report on the impact of charity and and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organisations has been published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, and the Information Society Project at Yale University. It...
Dec 9, 2015 | Access to information, Government policy
In this guest post, Transparency International UK’s Steve Goodrich considers UK citizens’ right to access information, arguing that public money should be put towards examining how the Freedom of Information regime can be improved, not weakened The right...
