Hi, Last week, I met Helen Darbishire of Access Info Europe (http://www.access-info.org/). They recently got funding to support people in getting hold of information like this -- they are particularly interested in Right to Reuse issues. Worth dropping them a line, too?
You have good legal knowledge between you already, but you might get some useful help from a campaigning perspective, and perhaps more. Seb On 4 July 2011 08:50, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/7/4 Mark Goodge <[email protected]>: >> >> I tweeted and blogged about it, and someone else on Twitter pointed out that >> such an arrangement may well be contrary to section 14 of the Re-use of >> Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. If so, that would apply to the >> contract with Bailii as well. So I've followed it up with another FoI >> request: >> >> http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_interest_provisions_for_e >> > > Yes, that occurred to me. Its not the strongest of provisions though, > but it would be interesting to see how they respond. > > What regulation 14 does do is impose a statutory requirement to, > essentially, explain various arrangements in documentary form, which > means it can then be the subject of an FOI request. FOI can't be used > to make people explain things unless they have written that > explanation down - a fact which, alas, many requesters don't > appreciate. > > -- > Francis Davey > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/seb.bacon%40gmail.com > -- skype: seb.bacon mobile: 07790 939224 land: 01531 671074 _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
