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Government Control of Information: Some British Developments.
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Feintuck, Mike – Government Information Quarterly, 1996
Despite the 1993 White Paper on Open Government and the resulting Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, Britain has a reputation for secrecy and no Freedom of Information Act. Examines the use by government ministers of Public Interest Immunity Certificates to deny litigants access to government documents in the course of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries