Freedom of information: the law, the practice and the ideal. /
Patrick Birkinshaw.
- 3rd ed.
- Edinburg, Butterworth: 2001.
- xxxvi,514p.:
Includes index.
Contents: Persistent themes and novel problems -- Freedom of information:overseas experience -- Government and information-an historical development -- Claims and counterclaims -- Openness as a practice or non-practice -- The freedom of information act 2000 -- Access to personal information -- Secrecy and access in the European union -- Openness, information and courts -- Conclusion-how nigh is the end? -- The EU regulation on access: the final stage -- Index.