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Book Synopsis Freedom of Information Law in Ireland by : Maeve McDonagh
Download or read book Freedom of Information Law in Ireland written by Maeve McDonagh and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to provide a clear and detailed explanation of the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997. It begins with a discussion of the development of freedom of information laws internationally, both at domestic and international levels. The history of the Act in Ireland is then explored. Many of the Act's provisions are based on those of corresponding Australian and Canadian legislation. The book, therefore, draws extensively from the interpretation of such provisions in those jurisdictions. The relationship of the Act with existing Irish legislation relating to access to government information is also explained. The main focus of the book is upon the substance of the Act itself. It concentrates on the four main elements of the Act: * The right of access to government records * The duty of public bodies to publish information relating to their activities * The right to have incorrect personal records amended * The right to be given reasons for administrative decisions.
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information Law by : Maeve McDonagh
Download or read book Freedom of Information Law written by Maeve McDonagh and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Freedom of Information Law provides the user with a clear and comprehensive analysis of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, referring to decisions of the Information Commissioner and of the courts as well as to overseas FOI decisions. It also covers the separate legislative regime for access to environmental information. New to this edition * Deals with the Freedom of Information Act 2014 which replaces the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 - 2003 * Features numerous new decisions of the Information Commissioner * New High Court and Supreme Court decisions on FOI appeals are considered, including The Governors and Guardians Rotunda Hospital v Information Commissioner [2011] IESC 26, July 19, 2011. Key Features * An easy-to-understand reference that provides you with invaluable analysis and interpretation * A systematic and thorough explanation of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 * Up to date and including all important decisions of the Information Commissioner and case law * Each exemption provision is the subject of a full chapter * The system of review and appeal is thoroughly examined * Separate chapter on Access to Environmental Information * Explores in details the interplay between FOI and privacy/data protection Contents Background; The Freedom of Information Act 2014; Publication of Government Information, Records Management and Reasons for Administrative Decisions; Access; The Exemptions: General Issues; Meetings of the government; Deliberations of FOI bodies; Functions and Negotiations of FOI bodies; Parliamentary, Court and Certain Other Matters; Law Enforcement and Public Safety; Defence, Security and International Relations; Confidentiality; Commercially Sensitive Information Personal Information; Research and Natural Resources; Financial and Economic Interests of the State ; Enactments Relating to Non-Disclosure of Records; Access to and Amendment of Personal Records; Review and Enforcement;Access to Environmental Information; Freedom of Information and Data Protection; Freedom of Information and Archives About the author Professor Maeve McDonagh is an academic lawyer specialising in information law who has published widely in the field of information law. She has advised on the drafting and implementation of FOI legislation in various countries and she has been engaged as an expert on information law matters by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Professor McDonagh was Deputy Chair of the Press Council of Ireland from 2007 - 2013. In 2013, she was appointed by the Irish government to the FOI Implementation Review Group.
Book Synopsis Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act by : Maura Adshead
Download or read book Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act written by Maura Adshead and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Ireland's introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information Law by : Maeve McDonagh
Download or read book Freedom of Information Law written by Maeve McDonagh and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives you a comprehensive explanation and analysis of the Freedom of Information Act. This book examines the background to the development of freedom of information legislation both in Ireland and internationally, and explores its interaction with other legislation relating to access to government information.
Book Synopsis Keeping Us in the Dark by : Brendan Ryan
Download or read book Keeping Us in the Dark written by Brendan Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The politics of freedom of information by : Ben Worthy
Download or read book The politics of freedom of information written by Ben Worthy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do governments pass freedom of information laws? The symbolic power and force surrounding FOI makes it appealing as an electoral promise but hard to disengage from once in power. However, behind closed doors compromises and manoeuvres ensure that bold policies are seriously weakened before they reach the statute book. The politics of freedom of information examines how Tony Blair's government proposed a radical FOI law only to back down in fear of what it would do. But FOI survived, in part due to the government's reluctance to be seen to reject a law that spoke of 'freedom', 'information' and 'rights'. After comparing the British experience with the difficult development of FOI in Australia, India and the United States – and the rather different cases of Ireland and New Zealand – the book concludes by looking at how the disruptive, dynamic and democratic effects of FOI laws continue to cause controversy once in operation.
Book Synopsis The World's First Freedom of Information Act by : Juha Mustonen
Download or read book The World's First Freedom of Information Act written by Juha Mustonen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Troubling Transparency by : David E. Pozen
Download or read book Troubling Transparency written by David E. Pozen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information by : Patrick Birkinshaw
Download or read book Freedom of Information written by Patrick Birkinshaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enacted in 2000 and in operation in the UK since 2005, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has revealed information which has generated calls for constitutional reform. A massive 'information jurisprudence' has developed through the decisions of the Information Commissioner, the Information Tribunal and the courts. Governments' responses to the war on terror have involved increased resort to claims of national security and accompanying secrecy, but these developments have to exist alongside demands for FOI and transparency. FOI has to balance access to and protection of personal information, and major amendments have been made to the Data Protection Act in order to balance the competing demands of transparency and privacy. This detailed discussion of FOI laws and personal data laws examines the historical development of secrecy, national security and government, and their modern context.
Book Synopsis Saving the Freedom of Information Act by : Margaret B. Kwoka
Download or read book Saving the Freedom of Information Act written by Margaret B. Kwoka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability. Understanding who uses it is key to re-centering its oversight purposes.
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information by : Robert G. Vaughn
Download or read book Freedom of Information written by Robert G. Vaughn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains articles examining freedom of information statutes, including those protecting government employees who expose official misconduct. Using United States laws as examples, the articles explore the relationship of these laws to administrative and constitutional theory in the United States. In addition, they demonstrate how varying conceptions of information illuminate the controversies in the application of these laws to the revolution in the electronic storage and retrieval of information. The articles allow the reader to speculate how the connection of these laws to liberal democratic theory explains their recent adoption in several countries and their international application.
Book Synopsis Information Law by : Charles Oppenheim
Download or read book Information Law written by Charles Oppenheim and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation’s legal compliance and have roles and responsibilities in both complying with the law and taking advantage of its provisions. To do their jobs effectively, they need not only to understand the law, but also to develop the skills, confidence and organisational policy frameworks to apply the law’s principles to their context of use. They need the knowledge and skills to help them decide what is acceptable and to develop appropriate risk aware approaches when things are not clear-cut. Information Law: Compliance for librarians, information professionals and knowledge managers provides an overview of important information law issues along with tools and guidance to help readers establish a framework so that their organisation can both comply with its legal responsibilities and support a suitably risk aware environment which optimises access and use. Based on the authors’ many years in professional practice and on their proven ‘Compliance Methodology’, it will help readers understand the legal issues that are central to the information they hold or that they wish to access.
Book Synopsis Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act by : Maura Adshead
Download or read book Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act written by Maura Adshead and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Ireland’s introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information by : Kelvin Smith
Download or read book Freedom of Information written by Kelvin Smith and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes its title very seriously. It is a practical guide to the implementation of Freedom of Information Act 2000. Its combination of descriptions, checklists, models and practical examples will enable all those involved in the discharge of this important enactment to do so without fear or worry. Written by an expert at the National Archives, it avoids describing freedom of information in legal terms and instead focuses on implementation of the Freedom of Information Act from a user's point of view; pointing the reader to those parts of the Act which will affect implementation procedures. Time is running out in the countdown to full implementation of the Act by January 2005 so this practical guide provides the reader with all of the necessary information to make sure they are compliant in the most efficient manner possible covering both preparing for implementation (staffing infrastructure, action planning, records management and training) and actual implementation (use of IT, logging systems and handling requests). The book also includes an examination of how FOI links with other legislation such as Data Protection and Human Rights. Full of checklists and toolkits, the book also comes with free downloadable training materials. Key areas covered include: background to the act; the legislation; exemptions; publication schemes; enforcement and appeal; records management; data protection, human rights and other legislation; staffing and training; getting ready for Freedom of Information. (EDITOR).
Book Synopsis Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights by : Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika
Download or read book Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights written by Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.
Book Synopsis Government and Information Rights by : Patrick Birkinshaw
Download or read book Government and Information Rights written by Patrick Birkinshaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government and Information: The Law Relating to Access, Disclosure and their Regulation is the leading text offering comprehensive and practical advice on the access, disclosure and retention of government records under UK, EU and ECHR requirements. It is essential reading for all those dealing with public authority information. The fifth edition is extensively revised following numerous developments in both UK and EU law as well as the ever expanding case law on information rights under statutory, Convention and common law provisions. Legislation: Justice and Security Act 2013; Crime and Courts Act 2013 (s 34 in relation to press standards following Leveson); Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 Investigatory Powers Bill 2016; Environmental Information Regulations 2004; General Data Protection Regulation 2016; Key cases since the last edition include: Evans v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21 - the SC ruled that the Attorney General had acted unlawfully in issuing a veto preventing disclosure Kennedy v Charities Commission [2014] UKSC 20 - Supreme Court extended the ambit of the common law in relation to access to information and transparency Case 362/14 Schrems [2015]) - involving data transfer to the USA PJS v Newsgroup Newspapers ltd [2016] UKSC 26 – developing the law of personal privacy
Book Synopsis Medical Law in Ireland by : Simon Mills
Download or read book Medical Law in Ireland written by Simon Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Irish law book is a core text for any student of medicine, dentistry, radiography, physiotherapy, psychiatry or nursing, as well as legal practitioners advising clients in this area. Medical Law in Ireland (originally titled: Clinical Practice and the Law) brings together all applicable Irish law in an easy-to-read style and provides clear day-in day-out guidance for clinical practitioners, students and legal practitioners working in Ireland. This new edition sees an added emphasis on those areas of interest to legal practitioners, however there remains a wealth of information for those working in medical fields. Of particular note in this regard are the chapters on Clinical Negligence, Consent to Medical Treatment, End of Life, and Coroners Law and Other Issues arising after Death. These are all given in-depth treatments which provide the necessary information for those in day-to-day practice as well as those with an academic interest. Recent legislative changes are taken into account such as 2015's Montgomery vs Lanarkshire Health Board, as well as cases from the Medical Council. The two chapters on mental health reflect the growing importance need for clarity in this area. Author Simon Mills trained and qualified first as a doctor before moving into law. Now a barrister, he has specialized in medical law and brings both aspects of his experience to his work. His areas of particular interest are in clinical negligence, professional regulatory law, mental capacity and coroners' inquests.
