FOIMan reports back on the University of Winchester Centre for Information Rights’ recent conference on Trust, Risk, Information & the Law. Winchester University’s Centre for Information Rights is a relatively new player on the information rights …
FOIMan looks at a cuddly sounding piece of legislation that features in some FOI responses – and causes confusion. The Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 are not the best known piece of UK …
FOIMan lists court cases that have considered the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations. You may have noticed that sometimes the decisions of the Information Commissioner and the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights – …
FOIMan probes the refusal of a request for immigration statistics by the Home Office – and finds they haven’t always been so cautious. Earlier this afternoon I was asked if I would agree to being …
FOIMan highlights forthcoming new FOI laws in Crown Dependencies. There are states very near our shores here in the UK that have yet to implement a Freedom of Information Act. A couple of those – …
FOIMan looks at whether politicians’ diaries are fair game under FOI. Not long after FOI came into force in the UK I returned to the office from an external meeting to find my boss looking …
