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The Administrative Court has recently given its decision in Catt v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2012] EWHC 1471 (Admin).
The decision is an important one dealing with whether the police’s retention of a protestor’s data was an infringement of his rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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06/06/2012
Public procurement case digest (May 2012)
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Our public procurement case law digest for May 2012 focuses on sustainability and the extent of the requirement to disclose award criteria and weightings.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or contact us at: feedback@practicallaw.com if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners.
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The Department of Health (DoH) has published new guidance aimed at improving procurement across the NHS, while at the same time admitting that more needs to be done in this area. The DoH has also published a call for evidence for ideas for further improvements and committed itself to publishing a new procurement strategy later in 2012. Continue reading
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23/05/2012
Open standards: FRAND not free
Elisabetta Rotondo, Kemp Little LLP:
In its consultation on its proposals to require all public procurement contracts for “software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT” to be based on “open standards”, the government has expressed a preference that open standards are licensed on a royalty-free basis.
In this post, Elisabetta Rotondo of Kemp Little LLP argues that not only is this a mistake from a commercial perspective, but that it is also contrary to established EU policy and law. For a more detailed overview of the issues and arguments please see Elisabetta’s in-depth article on the government’s consultation.
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16/05/2012
FOI: the trouble with tribunals
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Public authorities regularly come in for criticism about the way that they deal with requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/3391) (EIR). Often harsh words are both justified and necessary. However, a look at the differing approaches taken by “differently constituted” first-tier tribunals to the same issues highlights the problems that public authorities face. The correct action to take is not always easy to identify as they try to deal with an ever increasing workload and fewer resources in the face of a series of mixed messages from the tribunal.