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...
Nov 6, 2015 | Access to information
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...
Aug 6, 2015 | Access to information
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...
Jul 24, 2015 | Access to information, Government policy, News media, Privacy
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...
Jun 15, 2015 | Government policy
Dr Judith Bannister is a Senior Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, undertaking a comparative study of FOI. On 17th June 2015 she will give an evening lecture at...