TY - JOUR
T1 - Freedom of information and the public interest
T2 - The commonwealth experience
AU - Paterson, Moira
AU - McDonagh, Maeve
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Faculty of Law, Oxford University.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article commences with a discussion of the concept of public interest generally and more specifically within the context of the common law. It then considers the role of public interest tests in the Freedom of information (FOI) legislation of Commonwealth countries and presents a taxonomy of public interest tests in Commonwealth FOI legislation. It concludes by considering the merits of the ground-breaking developments in the approach to public interest tests in Australian FOI law and argues that there are valuable insights to be gained from the experience of this early FOI adopter.
AB - This article commences with a discussion of the concept of public interest generally and more specifically within the context of the common law. It then considers the role of public interest tests in the Freedom of information (FOI) legislation of Commonwealth countries and presents a taxonomy of public interest tests in Commonwealth FOI legislation. It concludes by considering the merits of the ground-breaking developments in the approach to public interest tests in Australian FOI law and argues that there are valuable insights to be gained from the experience of this early FOI adopter.
KW - Access to information
KW - Freedom of information
KW - Public interest
KW - Transparency
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85045935491
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/87f03c32-ff9d-32ff-97d4-559554a643f1/
U2 - 10.1080/14729342.2017.1360606
DO - 10.1080/14729342.2017.1360606
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045935491
SN - 1472-9342
VL - 17
SP - 189
EP - 210
JO - Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
JF - Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
IS - 2
ER -
