decision making

11 Jan 2018

Leave no trace: the right to information and the duty to document

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

This report, Leave No Trace, contains the first comprehensive research into the laws, guidelines, and practices on record keeping across a range of 12 European jurisdictions and the European Commission. It reveals an extremely weak legal infrastructure and hugely variable practice on record keeping, which is undermining the public’s right of access to information: it is impossible to obtain documents that do not exist. The report contains a comparative analysis of the of laws, guidelines, and practices as they relate to the creation and maintenance of information needed for participation and accountability. The direct consequence of the lack of clear-cut

Leave no trace: the right to information and the duty to documentHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

10 Jan 2018

Legal Analysis: Access to Decision-Making Information in Europe

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

This Legal Analysis, based on a study of the access to information laws in eleven (11) countries and that of the European Union, evaluates the extent to which these laws provide transparency of the documents needed to follow and participate in decision making by public bodies. A valuable resource for academics and activists alike, it has sections on the strength and scope of Europe’s access to information laws, on requirements to create records, and on proactive publication obligations as they relate to documents needed to track decision making. With a focus on key classes of information such as minutes of

Legal Analysis: Access to Decision-Making Information in EuropeHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

28 Jul 2015

European Ombudsman investigates lack of transparency in selection of judges for European Court of Justice

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:11+01:00

Madrid, 27 July 2015 – The European Ombudsman last week called on the Council of the European Union to respond to allegations made by Access Info Europe and the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic that it wrongly refused access to information on selection processes used for judges entering the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The EU Clinic originally requested access to the opinions of the panel that examines all judicial candidates put forward by the Member States for the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU. The information was denied on the basis that

European Ombudsman investigates lack of transparency in selection of judges for European Court of JusticeHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:11+01:00