Access to Information in UK Law
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Leading Cases
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The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International and Others
Internal access by civil servants. Private individual with no public function in relation. Law firm. Classified information... ... These procedures can variously limit review of, access to and use of documents. All the law firms involved in these proceedings, ... given to a whole process of classification of documents or information by the Mozambican state into one of four grades: “state secret”, ... ...
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Upper Tribunal (Immigration and asylum chamber), 2022-03-30, PA/11954/2019
Criminal offences. Media freedom by the civil authorities. Background evidence. Upper tribunal... ... give a brief overview of the MQM from the Country Policy Information ... Note Pakistan: Political parties and affiliation, version 1.0, ... ... who has access to it. In any event, it mentions the Appellant’s ... name which as he ... ...
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Legislation
- Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985
- The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017
- The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
- The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012
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Books & Journal Articles
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Maori access to information technology
The extent of Internet access is a key indicator of the Maori people’s ability to use information technologies for social, e‐commerce and e‐government communication. The key findings from national ...
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Libraries' role in equalizing access to information
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the question of what libraries can do to help narrow the digital divide that causes unequal access to information. Design/methodology/approach: Thi...
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Access to information in Benin: a case study
Transparency is nowadays at the top of the agenda for most governments. The number of countries that have adopted a law on access to administrative documents is on the rise. Access to information l...
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Asynchronous social search as a single point of access to information
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present asynchronous social search as a novel and intuitive approach to search for information in which people collaborate to find the information they are ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
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Open Access to Law Continues to Expand – The UK Supreme Court Uses YouTube to Create More Open Access to Information About Judgments
Open access to information. It’s a prime tenet of the Internet. It’s fostering science through wide and virtually instant communication of massive amounts of scientific data through open access jou...
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Battle for access to information underlying the UK CMA dawn raid of Concordia
On 5 December 2018, the High Court rejected Concordia’s application to obtain full access to the information underpinning the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) application for a warrant for...
- Access To Information Held By Health Regulators Transparency Versus Confidentiality
- Access To Information Held In Complaint Files
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Forms
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Apply for a judicial review of a decision
Forms relating to matters raised in the Administrative Court, including challenges to decisions made by organisations such as local authorities and regulators.... ... information refers to ... If you do not have all the documents or information you ... The Aarhus Convention grants the public ... rights regarding access to information, public ... particiaption and access to justice, in ... ...
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Form N161
Court of Appeal Civil Division forms including form N244 to apply for a court order.... ... A free leaflet EX340 – I want to appeal giving information ... about making an appeal in or to the High Court or the County ... Court ... The Aarhus Convention grants the public rights regarding ... access to information, public particiaption and access to ... justice, in ... ...
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Investigation or enforcement proceedings (court, insolvency, tax) (CIT)
Application form CIT: to access information for use in connection with court proceedings, insolvency and tax liability.
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Concerning judgments on parental responsibility
Standard directions forms under the Children Act.... ... Person(s) with rights of access ... Full name ... Specific information on judgments on rights of access where ‘exequator’ is requested under ... ...
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