Published Date:
27 January 2007
By CHRISTINE O'NEILL
IN THE past week, we have been given important judicial guidance on the extent to which officials' advice to ministers can be made public under freedom of information (FoI) laws.
In one of its first decisions in the FoI field, the Court of Session rejected attempts by the Scottish Executive to withhold from the public arena advice given by civil servants to ministers. In doing so, it has curtailed the "private space" in which...
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Last Updated:
26 January 2007 11:01 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Privacy laws
