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Sanctions Guidance is not a score sheet – Court of Appeal findings from GMC v Gilbert & PSA
Jessica Etherington
4 September 2013
Compulsory data protection audits: Opening Pandora’s box?
Earlier this year, the Information Commissioner repeated his call for compulsory data protection audits of councils and NHS Trusts in response to what he referred to as “really stupid basic errors”. Sophie Kemp discusses.
12 July 2012
Commercially sensitive information and the nincompoop’s law
Adam Chapman discusses the commercial advantages and disadvantages under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
28 October 2011
Public Law Update – Licensing Appeals in the spotlight
Licensing decisions by local authorities and regulatory bodies can of course have a very significant commercial impact for those entities and individuals that they affect. It is not surprising therefore that, depending upon the sector and context, appeals can be common.
4 August 2011
Public Law Update: Healthcare rationing
In an important judgement delivered at the end of July, the Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to provision in a Primary Care Trust’s (PCT) Individual Funding Request (IFR) policy that excluded any consideration of non clinical factors when the PCT was deciding whether, exceptionally, to fund treatment for an individual where that treatment fell outside the PCT’s normal funding criteria.