Halfway to Freedom of Information - The Legislative Judicial Protection of Right of Access to

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of the law and enforcement relating to Chinese citizens' right of access to information (ATI). It reviews the labyrinth of Chinese laws that bear on government information disclosure, and examines the judicial treatment of the ATI right based on a survey of over 400 representative lawsuits.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From Transparency Policies to Open Government Information Legislation
Chapter 3: Legislative Framework for the Right of Access to Information
Chapter 4: The Availability of Judicial Review
Chapter 5: Substantive Issues: Judicial Review of Anti-Transparency Provisions
Chapter 6: Substantive Issues: Judicial Review of the Application of Exemption
Chapter 7: The Selection of Judicial Remedies
Chapter 8: General conclusion

About the author

Yongxi Chen is a Senior Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong. He has published on freedom of information, personal data protection and comparative administrative law. He has participated in preparing the drafts of China's first local regulation on freedom of information and other local legislation on informatization. Before receiving his PhD in Law at the University of Hong Kong in 2013, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in European law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and his LLM and LLB at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Summary

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of the law and enforcement relating to Chinese citizens’ right of access to information (ATI). It reviews the labyrinth of Chinese laws that bear on government information disclosure, and examines the judicial treatment of the ATI right based on a survey of over 400 representative lawsuits.

Product details

• Authors: Yongxi Chen, Chen Yongxi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781472462657
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-6265-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Rule of Law in China and Comparative Perspectives; The Rule of Law in China and Comparative Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, LAW / General, Public Administration, comparative law, Regional / International studies, Public international law: human rights, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Library and information sciences / Museology, Social law and Medical law, Freedom of information law