Freedom of information

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 166-181

  Birkinshaw, Patrick ^a  

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EID: 0030639984     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028711     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. 1 P. Birkinshaw, Freedom of Information, (2nd edn. Butterworths, 1996).
2. 2 Lord Irvine of Lairg 'Judges and Decision-Makers: The Theory and Practice of Wednesbury Review', Public Law, 1996, 59.
3. 3 Sir Stephen Sedley 'The Sound of Silence: Constitutional Law without a Constitution', Law Quarterly Review, 1994, 270.
4. 4 Seventy-two complaints by the end of 1995. In 1995 there were 1353 'code requests' to departments and agencies with 114 refusals: 1995 Report on the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
5. 5 Commission Decision 93/730/EC, OJ L 340/41 (31 December 1993) and Council Decision 93/731/EC, OJ L 340/43. A Communication from the Commission listed those European and other countries where rights of access to government information generally existed and not just rights to personal information: OJ 1993, C 156, p. 5.
6. 6 OJ L 1993 340/41.
7. 7 Since February 1993, 28 meetings of the Council, including those on general affairs were opened up, OJEC, C 79/22, 18 March 1996.
8. 8 This involved Council papers relating to Europol and the very different responses to requests from Swedish reporters by the Swedish government and the EU Council.
9. 9 Carvel v EU Council [1996] All ER (EC) 53. See OJEC C 213/22 on publication of votes in relation to Council Directives.
10. 10 See A Partnership of Nations, Cm 3181 (1996) p. 30 on government suggestion involving these bodies and intergovernmental proposals concerning defence under the Western European Union.
11. 11 See P. Birkinshaw and D. Ashiagbor, Common Market Law Review, 1996, 499, and W. van Gerven, Toward a Coherent Constitutional System within the European Union', European Public Law, 1996, 81, and the Commons European Legislation Committee Role of National Parliaments in the European Union, HC 51, xxvii, 1995-96.
12. 11 See P. Birkinshaw and D. Ashiagbor, Common Market Law Review, 1996, 499, and W. van Gerven, Toward a Coherent Constitutional System within the European Union', European Public Law, 1996, 81, and the Commons European Legislation Committee Role of National Parliaments in the European Union, HC 51, xxvii, 1995-96.
13. 11 See P. Birkinshaw and D. Ashiagbor, Common Market Law Review, 1996, 499, and W. van Gerven, Toward a Coherent Constitutional System within the European Union', European Public Law, 1996, 81, and the Commons European Legislation Committee Role of National Parliaments in the European Union, HC 51, xxvii, 1995-96.