Information Rights in Practice: The Non-legal Professional's Guide - Brossura

Stead, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1856046206 ISBN 13: 9781856046206

Casa editrice: Facet Publishing, 2008

Riassunto

The requirements of the relevant legislation are set out together with examples, flow-charts, and diagrams to illustrate and clarify how to apply the law in practice. This indispensable guide is a one-stop shop for all you need to know about information rights law, using relevant case studies to clarify and illuminate these tricky issues. Contents include:

• Data Protection Act 1998: definitions of personal data; scope of the Act; the principles; access to personal data and data sharing
• Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004: scope of the Acts; applications of exemptions/exceptions; public interest tests, publication schemes; disclosure logs and records management
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005
• other non-information rights-related legislation
• interaction of legislation
• requests for information.

Readership: A must-have for anyone working with information rights in public authorities and the private sector, this book is also a useful reference point for legal advisers, academics and students of information rights, as well as media professionals wanting to learn and understand how public authorities approach requests for information and the surrounding procedures.

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Alan Stead

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Facet Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1856046206
• ISBN 13: 9781856046206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania