Freedom of Expression and Internet Regulation
New report: The impact of charity and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organizations
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...
MTE v Hungary: New ECtHR Judgment on Intermediary Liability and Freedom of Expression
Christina Angelopoulos is a post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London. She wrote her PhD on intermediary liability in copyright at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In the following...
Steve Goodrich: FOI is under attack when it should be strengthened
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 to access...
Ben Worthy: How much can we know about the private sector – and what next for future transparency?
This post originally appeared on Dr Ben Worthy's blog, OpenDataStudy. It is based on his contribution to an event on 28th September 2015 co-presented by the Information Law and Policy Centre and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and hosted by Baker and McKenzie...
Eerke Boiten: Privacy watchdog takes first step against those undermining right to be forgotten
This guest post by Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, considers the implications of granting an individual the right to be de-listed from online search results: should new articles about de-listed content be removed too? The UK’s data privacy watchdog has waded into...
Upcoming event, 28 September 2015, 5.30-7pm, Baker & McKenzie LLP, London: Freedom of Information – Extending Transparency to the Private Sector
The Information Law and Policy Centre is delighted to be jointly organising this event with the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, on Freedom of Information and the Private Sector. It will be hosted by the law firm Baker & McKenzie and the line up includes two...
Philip Murphy: Obsessive secrecy impedes an informed discussion about the UK monarchy
In this post, originally published on The Conversation UK, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History at School of Advanced Study, Philip Murphy, reflects on the Royal Family's secretive handling of its records...
Q&A with Professor Katherine Biber – legal scholar, historian and criminologist
Professor Katherine Biber is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, where her research explores the handling of criminal evidence outside the courtroom and after the conclusion of a trial. On 11th June she will take part in the Illicit Images...
Call for Papers: LVI 2015 – Law via the Internet Conference 9-11 November 2015
This year's Law via the Internet 2015 conference, which will take place in Sydney, has opened its call for papers. The conference will take place on 10-11 November 2015 at NSW Australia (the University of New South Wales) and will be preceded by the annual meeting of...
Upcoming event, 20 January 2015: Data Protection Act 1984, Freedom of Information Act 2000 – 30 and 15 years on
James Michael, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and chair of the Centre for Law and Information Policy Advisory Board, will discuss data protection and Freedom of Information past and present in his annual lecture on 20 January...