A Scottish freedom of information regime for a denationalised environment : rhetorical or authentically practical?
Liddle, Calum and McMenemy, David (2015) A Scottish freedom of information regime for a denationalised environment : rhetorical or authentically practical? Information and Communications Technology Law, 24 (3). pp. 225-241. ISSN 1360-0834 (https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2015.1084678)
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Abstract
This paper provides an evaluation of the Scottish freedom of information regime in the modern denationalised environment. The authors conducted a pragmatic investigation by means of a real-world compliance inquiry which involved, among other things, the electronic submission of standardised requests for information to those local authority arm’s-length external organisations which find themselves now subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. A compliance matrix, with several response measures, recorded the progression and outcome of the requests sent to each named ‘public authority’. The article is also furnished with a contextual overview of the interaction between the home nation FOI regimes and private enterprise with a nod to contemporaneous events. In turn, the paper reveals several quagmires for the operational practicality of FOI in the privatised arena: a pronounced reminder of the difficulties associated with maintaining a functioning and practical FOI regime in light of a myriad of public service delivery models in the denationalised epoch.
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Liddle, Calum ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-7842 and McMenemy, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3203-9001;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 55850 Dates: DateEvent16 September 2015Published29 June 2015AcceptedNotes: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Information & Communications Technology Law on 19th September 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13600834.2015.1084678 Subjects: Law
Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer scienceDepartment: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Mar 2016 11:04 Last modified: 15 Nov 2024 01:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/55850