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Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Global Witness
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Any reform to the law on Official Secrets must provide robust protection for public interest disclosures and open justice
Lorna Woods, Lawrence McNamara and Judith Townend - affiliated members of the Information Law and Policy Centre - comment on the Law Commission's proposals to reform 'Protection of Official Data'. This blog post accompanies their submission to the Law Commission's...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Lorna Woods, Lawrence McNamara and Judith Townend
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Where did all the privacy injunctions go? A response to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation
Dr Judith Townend highlights the difficulties in accessing accurate data on privacy injunctions as part of a submission made on behalf of the Transparency Project to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation . Dr Townend is a Lecturer in Media and Information Law,...
New Special Issue of Communications Law: Information control in an ominous global environment
The Information Law and Policy Centre is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Communications Law journal based on papers submitted for our annual workshop last November. The journal articles are available via direct subscription, through...
Trump is right: stories will dry up if the press can’t use anonymous sources
By Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University Donald Trump has declared war on anonymous sources and wants to ban their use by journalists. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, he...
ILPC launches new report: ‘Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’
The emergence of an everyday digital culture and the increasing use of legal instruments by state actors to collect and access communications data has led to growing concern about the protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers. With the support of Guardian...
Reflections on ‘Freedom of Information’ at 250
In December 2016, the Information Law and Policy Centre co-organised an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the world’s first law providing a right to information. It was hosted by free expression NGO, Article 19 at the Free Word Centre and supported by the...
Open letter in the Daily Telegraph: Concerns with ‘information sharing’ provisions in the Digital Economy Bill
Associate research fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre and lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, Dr Judith Townend, is among the signatories of this letter published on the letters page of the Telegraph on 25/11/2016...
Needles on top of haystacks and reporting the courts in a digital age
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 technology, law...