FOIMan reports on his first encounter with the new Information Commissioner. One of the things that struck me most when Elizabeth Denham was appointed Information Commissioner earlier this year was her background. After the career …
FOIMan summarises the outcome of the government’s long-awaited Triennial Review of the Information Commissioner’s Office. The government has finally published its Triennial Review of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The long-awaited report concludes that: the ICO …
FOIMan warns that a qualified person should be careful what they say in public – it might come back to haunt them… Section 36(2)(c) of FOIA allows public authorities to refuse to provide information where, in …
FOIMan launches a new resource to help practitioners and others get to grips with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Those interested in privacy had been waiting for years for the European Union to agree its …
FOIMan highlights upcoming events that you may be interested in. Just a quick post to highlight a few FOI and information rights events that you may be interested in. Firstly, a reminder that I’ll be …
FOIMan looks at the significance of the public interest test under FOI. Most of the exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are “qualified” exemptions, meaning that the public authority has to consider not …
