Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria: Selected Cases, volume 3

This book was published in 2005. It contains analyses of questions that have arisen during court practices and all the documents filed in ten FOI cases between 2003 and 2004. The publication of as many court documents as possible (including written defenses, court session minutes, etc.) is aimed at presenting the positions of the parties and the judgments that have led to the final court decisions.

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Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria: Selected Cases, volume 2

The book presents important Supreme Administrative Court decisions on the Access to Public Information Act (APIA) from the end of 2002 until March 2004. The authors comment on problems related to the admissability of complaints against silent refusals, the definition of the term „public information,” the formulation of requests and the exeptions from the right of access to information. The practices of refusal on the grounds of state, administrative, and commercial secrets are analyzed, as well as the exemption related to documents with no significance of their own. Ten court decisions on FOI cases of public interest were published, which are important regarding the interpretation of certain provisions of the APIA.

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Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria: Selected Cases, 2002

This book presents some of the most significant access to information cases heard by the Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court and includes full documentation on 11 cases. The introduction reviews the most important problems emerging from access to information litigation during the first years after the adoption of the APIA and outlines some of the obstacles to freedom of information in Bulgaria. he introduction to the book was written by Alexander Kashumov and edited by Gergana Jouleva

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