John Macdonald QC is a leading public law silk and high profile campaigner for freedom of information and human rights legislation.Clive H. Jones is a public law and commercial barrister with extensive experience advising local authorities upon commercial and property matters, including tendering out and duties owed to the homeless and aslyum seekers.

Richard Scott, the judge who through his inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair a few years ago put freedom of information high on the public agenda, rightly observes in a Foreword that, although written as a practitioners' book, "the commendably simple, clear language of the text will make its exposition of the law as accessible to non-lawyers as to lawyers". This is a book which no serious practitioner can do without. ... Much has been written about the FOI Act, but this is, beyond doubt, the most authoritative analytical work on the subject.

• A. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000; B. THE PRESENT; C. THE STATUTORY SCHEME; D. A COMPARATIVE VIEW; E. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER STATUTES; F. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND THE COMMERCIAL WORLD; G. PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS; H. DEVOLUTION; I. THE EUROPEAN UNION AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD; J. THE FUTURE; FIRST CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT

John Macdonald QC is a leading public law silk and high profile campaigner for freedom of information and human rights legislation.Clive H. Jones is a public law and commercial barrister with extensive experience advising local authorities upon commercial and property matters, including tendering out and duties owed to the homeless and aslyum seekers.

Richard Scott, the judge who through his inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair a few years ago put freedom of information high on the public agenda, rightly observes in a Foreword that, although written as a practitioners' book, "the commendably simple, clear language of the text will make its exposition of the law as accessible to non-lawyers as to lawyers". This is a book which no serious practitioner can do without. ... Much has been written about the FOI Act, but this is, beyond doubt, the most authoritative analytical work on the subject.

• A. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000; B. THE PRESENT; C. THE STATUTORY SCHEME; D. A COMPARATIVE VIEW; E. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER STATUTES; F. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND THE COMMERCIAL WORLD; G. PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS; H. DEVOLUTION; I. THE EUROPEAN UNION AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD; J. THE FUTURE; FIRST CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT

John Macdonald QC is a leading public law silk and high profile campaigner for freedom of information and human rights legislation.Clive H. Jones is a public law and commercial barrister with extensive experience advising local authorities upon commercial and property matters, including tendering out and duties owed to the homeless and aslyum seekers.

Richard Scott, the judge who through his inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair a few years ago put freedom of information high on the public agenda, rightly observes in a Foreword that, although written as a practitioners' book, "the commendably simple, clear language of the text will make its exposition of the law as accessible to non-lawyers as to lawyers". This is a book which no serious practitioner can do without. ... Much has been written about the FOI Act, but this is, beyond doubt, the most authoritative analytical work on the subject.

• A. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000; B. THE PRESENT; C. THE STATUTORY SCHEME; D. A COMPARATIVE VIEW; E. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER STATUTES; F. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND THE COMMERCIAL WORLD; G. PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS; H. DEVOLUTION; I. THE EUROPEAN UNION AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD; J. THE FUTURE; FIRST CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT