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- Title
Confidential Information and Governments: Balancing the Public's Right to Access Government Records and an Oil and Gas Company's Right to Protect its Confidential Information.
- Authors
Burns, Stephen D.; Newhook, Todd; Gittens, Sébastien A.
- Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the public's right to access records in the custody or under the control of the government with the oil and gas industry's need to protect Its confidential information from disclosure. Focusing on practical issues, the authors review the law of confidence, the structure of the access to information legislation and related case law, the public policy considerations supporting same, and some of the risks and pitfalls that organizations can avoid if they consider such legislation when interacting with public bodies.
- Subjects
ACCESS to information laws; GAS industry; DISCLOSURE laws; DISCLOSURE; PETROLEUM industry; GOVERNMENT policy; GAS industry laws; CONFIDENTIAL record laws
- Publication
Dalhousie Law Journal, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0317-1663
- Publication type
Article