Public bodies hold huge quantities of information. What those bodies do with that information and when they must provide it to you is regulated and our team can assist you in ensuring that information is properly handled and is disclosed when requested.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 on receiving a written request for information a public body must supply it unless an exemption is applicable. We can assist in formulating a request for information in terms that are most likely to lead to the public authority supplying information that you want and – if the request is refused – in challenging that refusal at the internal review stage and then on to an appeal to the Information Commissioner and ultimately to proceedings in the specialist Tribunal that hears information law cases.
The Data Protection Act 1998 requires anyone who handles personal data to comply with a number of important principles and also gives individuals certain rights over information that is held about them including a right of access to information and a right to apply for inaccurate information to be corrected or removed. We can assist you in dealing with all aspects of data protection law.
Members of our team have extensive experience in information law, in particular in acting for central government bodies in freedom of information litigation.
For more information, please contact Adam Chapman
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