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Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information
Essays in Honour of Sir David Williams

Edited by Jack Beatson and Yvonne Cripps

Price: £50.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826839-0
Publication date: 12 October 2000
480 pages, 234x156 mm
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Reviews
  • 'This is a valuable collection for the lawyer. It is an interesting, in some places exceedingly so, study for the lay reader. It is also a fitting tribute to one of this country's leading legal scholars and one of the Univeristy of Cambridge's most respected and influential figures.' - Cambridge - The Magazine of the Cambridge Society
  • 'This is really a lawyer's book ... but the themes of the collection touch so closely on the lives of every citizen that it is worth the while of those who are not used to the conventions of legal writing ... to spend time grappling with a sometimes difficult text for the insight it brings.' - Cambridge - The Magazine of the Cambridge Society

Description
  • Highly topical content
  • Well-known international contributors
  • Discusses a good mixture of practical, judicial, and academic global perspectives
  • Published to coincide with the Human Rights Act coming into force in October 2000 and the Freedom of Information Bill's second reading in Parliament
The volume deals with vital issues on freedom of expression and freedom of information and emphasizes the importance of the free exchange and dissemination of ideas and of open, and therefore more accountable, government. It notes the ways in which these freedoms have received recent legislative attention in the Human Rights Act 1998, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Bill.

Articles on subjects such as freedom of speech, religion, and assembly; defamation of the state and of politicians; harassment, official secrecy, public interest disclosure, and the protection of privacy; focus on issues of political and legal importance to all who take an interest in how their country is governed.

These matters are addressed here by leading judges, practitioners, and scholars from the UK, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. They provide timely and authoritative analysis as well as comparisons between British protections of these freedoms and the safeguards offered by other Commonwealth states, the USA, the EU and under the European Convention on Human Rights.

This book will be of interest to academic and practising lawyers, government officials, and academics working in departments of politics and government.

Readership: Scholars and students interested in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, Media Law, and Information Law

Contents
Sir David Williams QC, DL , Jack Beatson QC and Sir William Wade QC
1. Part One Freedom of Expression Common Law Constitutionalism and Freedom of Speech , Trevor Allen
2. Freedom of Speech and Representative Government , Leslie Zines
3. Freedom of Expression and Religion: Some Thoughts on the `Glenn Hoddle' Case , The Hon Mr Justice Lias and Jason Coppell
4. Politicians and the Press , Michael Beloff QC
5. The Protection of Political Discourse: Pragmatism or Incoherence? , Christopher Forsythe
6. Is the Privileged Position of Political Speech Justified? , Ivan Hare
7. A Free Press and Fair Trial: Challenges and Change , A. T. H. Smith
8. Newsgathering as Protected Activity , David A. Schultz
9. Freedom of Assembly , Eric Barendt
10. Freedom of Expression and the Problem of Harassment , Bob Hepple QC
11. `R. v. Chief Constable of Sussex, ex parte International Trader's Ferry Ltd' , Rt Hon Lord Cooke of Thorndon
12. Freedom of Expression in the EU Legal Order and in EU Relations with Third Countries , Derrick Wyatt
13. Part Two Freedom of Information The Relationship between Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information , Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE
14. Information as a Human Right , Stephen Sedley
15. Freedom of Information or Freedom From Informatio , Stephanie Palmer
16. Confidentiality , Richard Scott
17. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 , Yvonne Cripps
18. Linkage Between Access to Information and Judicial Review , Clive Lewis
19. Information and Privacy , David Feldman
20. Information, Privacy, and Technology: Citizens, Clients, or Consumers? , Fred Aman
21. Freedom of Information and International Law , K. J. Keith
22. Freedom of Information in Commercial Disputes , Malcolm Clarke
23. Freedom of Information: The Implications for Business , Richard Thomas/Clifford Chance
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Jack Beatson, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Director for the Centre for Public Law and
Yvonne Cripps, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Public Law, both at Cambridge University


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Freedom of information & freedom of speech
English law: constitutional & administrative
English law: defamation (slander & libel)
English law: media & the law (press, radio, television)
Constitutional & administrative law

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