JISC Legal : News

The Information Commissioner's Office has published a Freedom of Information Regulatory Action Policy, stating the factors it will use in deciding between the different enforcement mechanisms open to it.

The ICO held that Queen's University Belfast had wrongly applied exceptions under FOI and EIR, and ordered the institution to disclose raw data, whether ongoing research had been published or not.

A Defamation Bill, to be published next year, will balance freedom of speech with protection of reputation.   

Scientists at CRU at the University of East Anglia acted rigourously and honestly in their advice to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Facebook has begun to make changes in order to simplify and improve its privacy practices. 

The European Commission will pursue a case against the UK Government if it does not strengthen the Information Commissioner's powers.

Major changes put forward for FOI, retention of personal information, libel law, criminal offences, anti-terrorism and CCTV.

The University of East Anglia is to investigate how Freedom of Information requests were dealt with.

The Scottish Information Commissioner publishes new guidance for making and handling FOI requests.

Further to consultation on The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the Home Office has published new Codes of Practice that will come into force on 6 April 2010.

A council were found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after sensitive personal data relating to social work records were found in a filing cabinet bought by a member of the public.

The Information Tribunal has been abolished and its functions have been subsumed into the General Regulatory Chamber.

This report highlights developments that have taken place since the publication of the Data Handling Review.

The consultation on a revised code of practice can be found on the Scottish Government website.

The Information Tribunal has ruled that redaction time cannot count towards Freedom of Information (FOI) cost capping. 

Guidance for UK university libraries on the legal implications of providing catalogue records for re-use in Web applications.

Results are in from Scottish Government's FOISA survey on Section 61 Code of Practice on Records Management.

ICO concerned about plans to gather more communications data.

Amberhawk Training Limited have announced the launch of a new information law blog called "Hawktalk".

The Ministry of Justice has published the 4th report on the operation of the FOI 2000 Act in Central Government 2008.