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FOI Kid: February 2015

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Thoughts on FOI and DP from a practitioner. Friday, February 27, 2015. NADPO and the PCS strike at the ICO. My friends warned me not to get involved in this strike and union business. I am still glad that I did speak my mind, but pretty irritated by the ICO branch of PCS for having declared that NADPO was boycotting the ICO DP conference. I am pleased that the PCS branch clarified this:. Sorry ICO PCS branch - I still support your strike, I will still not go to the conference (although NADPO will be ther...

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Scottish EIRs | prout de jure

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News, reports and analysis on law and politics in the UK. Category Archives: Scottish EIRs. Registered Social Landlords and the Scottish EIRs. On 2 June 2014 the Scottish Information Commissioner issued a decision notice. Finding that Dunbritton Housing Association Limited, a Registered Social Landlord (“RSL”), was a Scottish public authority for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004. What is interesting is that after not appealing the Commissioner’s decision to the Co...

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Devolution | prout de jure

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News, reports and analysis on law and politics in the UK. Can the Scottish Parliament block ‘Brexit’? Following the 2014 referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country, a Commission was established by the UK Government to look at the Scottish devolution settlement. That Commission, the Smith Commission, recommended that the Sewel convention was given legislative force. Section 2. Of the Scotland Act 2016. Of the Scotland Act 1998. Which confirms in subsection (7) that Westminster can...

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Vote 2015 | prout de jure

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News, reports and analysis on law and politics in the UK. Category Archives: Vote 2015. Some thoughts on Proportional Representation. The system hasn’t always been broken; it worked when the two main parties attracted 95% of the votes cast by the electorate. As time has marched on our politics has changed. The political landscape is vastly different to how it looked in the late 1800s and early 1900s and as a consequence the electoral system no longer functions in a way that is appropriate. The Electoral ...

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FOI Kid: July 2014

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Thoughts on FOI and DP from a practitioner. Monday, July 7, 2014. The use of Twitter to make FOI requests. I have a rule – when it comes to Twitter, I try not to discuss any organisation within the sector that I work in. According to the ICO decision notice search tool, I work in the ‘police and criminal justice’ sector. So, when I saw FS50543791. 2 Twitter is a 'microblogging' platform which allows users to post short text messages (up to 140 characters in length) and converse with other users. All of t...

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Constitutional Law | prout de jure

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News, reports and analysis on law and politics in the UK. Category Archives: Constitutional Law. Can the Scottish Parliament block ‘Brexit’? Following the 2014 referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country, a Commission was established by the UK Government to look at the Scottish devolution settlement. That Commission, the Smith Commission, recommended that the Sewel convention was given legislative force. Section 2. Of the Scotland Act 2016. Of the Scotland Act 1998. Which confirms...

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Scots Law | prout de jure

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News, reports and analysis on law and politics in the UK. Category Archives: Scots Law. Can the Scottish Parliament block ‘Brexit’? Following the 2014 referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country, a Commission was established by the UK Government to look at the Scottish devolution settlement. That Commission, the Smith Commission, recommended that the Sewel convention was given legislative force. Section 2. Of the Scotland Act 2016. Of the Scotland Act 1998. Which confirms in subse...

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FOI Kid: September 2013

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Thoughts on FOI and DP from a practitioner. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. A FOI officer’s life: After the Rashomōn. I was awarded the Alison North/Information and Records Management Society New Professionals Award 2013 for the essay below, which was first printed in the IRMS bulletin over the summer. From: The FOI Officer. To: The Qualified Person. Submission under section 36(2)(c) of the FOI Act, which relates to the prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs. 7 The in-house health and wellbe...

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FOI Kid: November 2013

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Thoughts on FOI and DP from a practitioner. Monday, November 11, 2013. What is the purpose of subject access requests? This article asks more questions than it answers. All of this is stuff that presumably all of you know, but which I figured out recently (anything clever in this emerged in a conversation that I was having about this issue with someone much brighter than me). I finally read all of Durant. And, if so, to take such steps as the Act provides, for example in sections 10 to 14, to protect it&...

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FOI Kid: June 2015

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Thoughts on FOI and DP from a practitioner. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Using Twitter to make FOI requests (revisited). The Department for Work and Pensions made a bold claim some months ago on Twitter about how 99 per cent of the jobs on Universal Jobsmatch are genuine. I felt that this was probably nonsense given that they still do not have an effective way of vetting jobs that I am aware of. So I tweeted a FOI request to them asking them for:. 16 Section 11(1)(a) of the Act allows the applicant to expres...