TY - BOOK AU - Birkinshaw, Patrick. TI - Freedom of information: the law, the practice and the ideal. SN - 0406914915 AV - KD3756.B565 PY - 2001/// CY - Edinburg PB - Butterworth N1 - 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 ER -