BBC News: Open Secrets: FOI may break lobbying secrecy
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Martin Rosenbaum: "it looks like we are going to find out more about this, following an important decision issued today by the Information Tribunal."
Category Archives: informationtribunal
TheyWorkForYou.com: Written Ministerial Statements: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (18 February 2008)
David Miliband: "In accordance with the Information Tribunal's decision of 22 January 2008, I have today released what has been described as John Williams' draft of the September 2002 Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier."
Independent: Freedom Of Information: Government’s refusal to disclose legal advice challenged in court
"Lawyers have long argued that there is absolute protection against the publication of legally privileged advice. Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, finds a case which challenges this"
BBC News: Data row hits mobile mast website
"The future of [Ofcom's Sitefinder website] which details all the mobile phone masts in the UK is in doubt following a row over divulging "commercially sensitive" information." (Cough. Scrape! Cough.)
Out-Law.com: Dead woman’s medical records case could undermine FOI law, says expert
"A dead woman's medical records should not be released because a duty of confidentiality survives her death, the Information Tribunal has ruled. ..."
IMPACT®: The Information Tribunal: up to its neck in appeals
"A quick look at the Tribunal's decisions page supports the impression of an increased amount of decisions being made. ... Despite this increase in decisions, a backlog in pending appeals has developed."
The Register: Tribunal forces opening up of ID card ‘gateway’ docs
"The Information Tribunal has forced the disclosure of strategic reviews of the identity cards system by the Office of Government Commerce, which opposed the disclosure of the information."
Open Secrets: Judge overrules Tribunal on Balen
Martin Rosenbaum clears up some of the dodgy reporting on the Balen Report ruling: "This does not affect the Trbunal's ability to overrule the Commissioner on most issues, just on whether information comes under the derogations which apply to the BBC ..."