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    <title>Freedom of information: the law, the practice and the ideal</title>
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    <namePart>Birkinshaw, Patrick.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Butterworth</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Persistent themes and novel problems -- Freedom of information:overseas experience -- Government and information-an historical development -- Claims and counterclaims -- Openness as a practice or non-practice -- The freedom of information act 2000 -- Access to personal information -- Secrecy and access in the European union -- Openness, information and courts -- Conclusion-how nigh is the end? -- The EU regulation on access: the final stage -- Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Patrick Birkinshaw.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0406914915</identifier>
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