News Items
- Private companies on public contracts to come under FOIA
- Supreme Court backs Charity Commission in long running dispute
- No need to issue Refusal Notice where information not ‘held’, says Tribunal
- Commissioner launches legal bid to have DfT publish vetoed report
- Publication scheme definition document published for wholly owned companies
- New FOI guidance on requests for documents
- FOI requests received by UK universities continue to rise
Articles
- Is FOIA always the best route to getting information? – Patricia Barratt, Clifford Chance
- Transparency of outsourced public sector services and future changes to FOIA – Jackie Gray, Bond Dickinson
- Section 36 and the ‘qualified person’ — who is it and why does it matter? – Paul Gibbons (aka FOIMan)
- Recent decisions of the Commissioner and Tribunal – Niamh O’Kane, Herbert Smith Freehills