Official Information in UK Law
- Official Secrets and Official Information
- Exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act: An Official's Viewpoint
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Decent exposure: has America's much-scrutinised new legislation on the disclosure of financial data levelled the playing field for investors, or has it simply made companies less willing to divulge key information? Andrew Lymer and Amir Allam examine the official review of how the regulation worked in its first year to uncover the truth.
...Few reporting regulations have come under more scrutiny in such a short period than Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD). The legislation, which took effect in the US in October 2000, was a bold attempt by the regulators to eliminate the unfair advant......
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The Impact of Freedom of Information Legislation on Senior Civil Servants
This paper examines the position of senior civil servants before and after a freedomin of information act. It considers how the chanige would affect them not onlyl as policy advisers but as part of.........It considers how the chanige would affect them not onlyl as policy advisers but as part of the process of making public official information. The present position As far as the disclosure of official information is concerned, the attitude and con- duct of civil servants is ......
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Study On Awareness Of Records Management
These days the Japanese have been increasingly demanding freedom of information, or a system to open official information to the nation, or community residents, when requested. To make such informa......... days the Japanese have been increasingly demanding freedom of information, or a system to open official information to the nation, or community ......
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Revisiting Open Government: Recent Developments in Shifting the Boundaries of Government Secrecy under Public Interest Immunity and Freedom of Information Law
Australian law regulating the use and disclosure of official information is in a far from satisfactory state. It suffers from both obscurity and untoward complexity … [and i]t is ill-suited both to......... SECRECY UNDER PUBLIC INTEREST IMMUNITY AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW Anne Cossins* Australian law regulating the use and disclosure of official information is in a far from satisfactory state. It suffers from both obscurity and untoward complexity .. [and i]t is ill- suited both to ......
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Freedom of Information in Australia: Issue Closed
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy”, said Joseph Pulitzer, Needless secrecy is as difficult to eradicate as the ...
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Patterns of the use of information for decision making by administrative staff of a university in Nigeria
Reports a study of the use of information for decision making by administrative staff at the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. It explores the working experience of the respondents, sources ......... of competition between theinstitutions on a national and internationalscale.The foregoing indicates the importance ofinformation in the official decisional life ofmanagers to which university administrativestaff belong. The universities require theeffective utilisation of information for ......
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Presidential Directive (P.D.) 59
Nuclear weapons have been available to the United States since 1945, and to the USSR since 1949. Particularly in the years since 1960 the academic and analytical journal literature has contained li......... nuclear war-fighting policies have falsely portrayed the official policies in exactly the same way so as to press for changes. e following paper is designed to provide official information regarding US nuclear weapon targeting in the hope of redressing ......
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Performance when misinformation increases with experience
An official whose experience increases over time may overweight old information when making decisions. If the state of nature changes over time, the official’s performance eventually worsens with e.........ficial whose experience increases over time may overweight old information when making decisions. If the state of nature changes over time, the ......
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