Posts Tagged ‘legal analysis’

  • 25 March 2011

    Banisar Study Explores Interplay of RTI, Privacy laws

    There is no simple solution to balancing the sometimes competing rights of access to information and protection of privacy, “but most issues can be mitigated through the enactment of clear definitions in legislation, guidelines, techniques, and oversight systems,” according to…

  • 31 October 2008

    Constitutional Norms Often Not Reflected in Official Practice or Citizen Attitudes

    First-ever Nationwide Study Asks, “Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?”
    St. Petersburg, Russian Federation — The leading access-to-information organization in Russia has published a detailed legal and sociological analysis of the state of access in the Russian Federation, identifying contradictions between the…

  • 1 October 2003

    IMF Decides Against Mandatory Disclosure of Article IV Reports

    The International Monetary Fund executive board has decided not to require the disclosure of a key document, the Article IV staff report.
    The board opted instead to say that publication of the Article IV reports is "voluntary by presumed." This…