AGGREGATION AND ARTICLE 10 IN THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL: NEITHER NEEDED
Sinclair v IC and Department for Energy and Climate Change (EA/2011/0052) concerned a request under the EIR from the Taxpayers’ Alliance for information on the potential financial and/or economic cost...
View ArticleABSOLUTE EXEMPTION AN UNJUSTIFIED INTERFERENCE WITH ARTICLE 10 ECHR
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to freedom of expression – has begun to make its presence felt in FOIA and EIR case law. For example, I have recently reported on...
View ArticleNICK GRIFFIN IN THE TRIBUNAL: APPLICANT BLINDNESS, THE “JOURNALIST’S ROUTE”...
BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted in 1998 for publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred. In 2009, Ian Cobain, an investigative journalist at The Guardian, requested sight of all Crown...
View ArticleKENNEDY V IC AND CHARITY COMMISSION: COURT OF APPEAL DECIDES
A quick update on today’s main FOI development: in May 2011, the Court of Appeal heard the case of Kennedy v IC [2011] EWCA Civ 367 (see the backstory here). It remitted the matter to the...
View ArticleStatutory bars on disclosure: don’t construe too widely
The Tribunal’s decision in Cubells v IC and Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (EA/2011/0183) is notable for the approach taken to construing a statutory bar on disclosure for the...
View ArticleRedacting for anonymisation: Article 8 v Article 10 in child protection context
Panopticon has reported recently on the ICO’s new Code of Practice on Anonymisation: see Rachel Kamm’s post here. That Code offers guidance for ensuring data protection-compliant disclosure in...
View ArticleYet more on Article 10 ECHR and FOIA
The question of whether the right to freedom of expression conferred by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights has a bearing on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (particularly as...
View ArticleGCHQ’s internet surveillance – privacy and free expression join forces
A year ago, I blogged about Privacy International’s legal challenge – alongside Liberty – against GCHQ, the Security Services and others concerning the Prism/Tempora programmes which came to public...
View ArticleSome results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe. Learn...
This is the message that now regularly greets those using Google to search for information on named individuals. It relates, of course, to the CJEU’s troublesome Google Spain judgment of 13 May 2014. I...
View ArticleNICK GRIFFIN IN THE TRIBUNAL: APPLICANT BLINDNESS, THE “JOURNALIST’S ROUTE”...
BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted in 1998 for publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred. In 2009, Ian Cobain, an investigative journalist at The Guardian, requested sight of all Crown...
View ArticleKENNEDY V IC AND CHARITY COMMISSION: COURT OF APPEAL DECIDES
A quick update on today’s main FOI development: in May 2011, the Court of Appeal heard the case of Kennedy v IC [2011] EWCA Civ 367 (see the backstory here). It remitted the matter to the...
View ArticleStatutory bars on disclosure: don’t construe too widely
The Tribunal’s decision in Cubells v IC and Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (EA/2011/0183) is notable for the approach taken to construing a statutory bar on disclosure for the...
View ArticleRedacting for anonymisation: Article 8 v Article 10 in child protection context
Panopticon has reported recently on the ICO’s new Code of Practice on Anonymisation: see Rachel Kamm’s post here. That Code offers guidance for ensuring data protection-compliant disclosure in...
View ArticleYet more on Article 10 ECHR and FOIA
The question of whether the right to freedom of expression conferred by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights has a bearing on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (particularly as...
View ArticleGCHQ’s internet surveillance – privacy and free expression join forces
A year ago, I blogged about Privacy International’s legal challenge – alongside Liberty – against GCHQ, the Security Services and others concerning the Prism/Tempora programmes which came to public...
View ArticleSome results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe. Learn...
This is the message that now regularly greets those using Google to search for information on named individuals. It relates, of course, to the CJEU’s troublesome Google Spain judgment of 13 May 2014. I...
View ArticleFOI and Article 10: life after Kennedy (and Kenedi)
The right to freedom of expression under Article 10(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights includes “freedom… to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public...
View Article‘Plebgate’ and the protection of journalistic sources
It has been a mixed day for the media’s entanglements with the judiciary. Chris Knight posted earlier today about the unhappy outcome for Mirror Group Newspapers before the Court of Appeal in the...
View ArticlePersonal data and politicians’ names
Can the name of a local councillor who has defaulted on Council tax properly be withheld from disclosure under the exemption for personal data in s.40 FOIA? That was the issue for the Upper Tribunal...
View ArticleKENNEDY V IC AND CHARITY COMMISSION: COURT OF APPEAL DECIDES
A quick update on today’s main FOI development: in May 2011, the Court of Appeal heard the case of Kennedy v IC [2011] EWCA Civ 367 (see the backstory here). It remitted the matter to the...
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