Information Rights

“An essential addition to the bookshelf of any practitioner who has to consider information rights, however often. The book is the best kind of practitioner text: practical and clear, but also scholarly, thoughtful and analytical.” (Sarah Hannett KC, Judicial Review)

Retaining the position it has held since first publication, this is the 6th edition of the leading practitioner text on all aspects of information law. The latest edition includes a substantially enlarged set of chapters on appeals, enforcement, and remedies, as well as covering over 250 new judgments and decisions published since the last edition.

Information Rights has been cited by the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the Tribunals, and is used by practitioners, judges and all those who practise in the field, including journalists. The new edition maintains its style of succinct statements of principle, supported by case law, legislative provisions, and statutory guidance.

The work is divided into 2 volumes. Volume 1 is a 1,500-page commentary, with a comprehensive coverage of the data protection regime, freedom of information and environmental information law, as well as other rights of access to official information such as local government legislation and the Public Records Act. There is detailed coverage of appeal and regulatory procedures. Volume 2 comprises extensive annotated statutory material, including the DPA 2018, the UK GDPR, FOIA, Tribunal rules and statutory guidance.

Contributors: James Findlay KC, Olivia Davies, John Fitzsimons, Richard Hanstock and Dr Christina Lienen (all of Cornerstone Barristers); Antony White KC, Sarah Hannett KC, Sara Mansoori KC and Aidan Wills (all of Matrix Chambers); Aidan Eardley KC and Clara Hamer (both of 5RB); Rupert Bowers KC and Martin Westgate KC (both of Doughty Street Chambers); Henry King KC and Bankim Thanki KC (both of Fountain Court Chambers); James Maurici KC and Jacqueline Lean (both of Landmark Chambers); Gemma White KC (Blackstone Chambers); Oliver Sanders KC (1 Crown Office Row); Saima Hanif KC (3VB); Jennifer Thelen (39 Essex Chambers); and Simon McKay (McKay Law).

Philip Coppel is a renowned commercial and administrative law King's Counsel practising from Cornerstone Barristers.

Throughout his career he has acted for business and against businesses, for governments and against governments, at all levels and in all forms. He is equally at home in the Commercial Court as he in the Administrative Court. After spending 3 years in a large City firm, he moved to the Bar in 1994 and took silk in 2009. He deliberately fostered a wide practice area, better enabling him both to discern and to cover all the issues that disputes involve.

Philip has long taken an interest in legal writing that complements his practice. Foreseeing the importance of the Freedom of Information Act, he wrote the leading practitioner text on the topic, Information Rights, Hart Publishing. First published in the year that the Act took effect, it is now in its 6th edition and is recognised as the leading practitioner text in the field. He regularly writes for Atkin's Court Forms on election law, evidence and torts. For Bloomsbury Publishing he contributed to Cornerstone on Councillors' Conduct and Cornerstone on the Planning Court. Reflecting his longstanding involvement in election law cases, he has written for Bloomsbury Publishing Cornerstone's Electoral Legislation 2016. This is the first comprehensive single-volume collection of the numerous laws governing the conduct of elections and referendums in the United Kingdom.