Public sector

Legal information for central Government, local Government, law enforcement, health services, education.

Below you will find a selection of the guides we think are most relevant to you. Visting any of these will give you access to other materials on the same topic.

OUT-LAW Guides

• Checklist for compliance with the Data Protection Act
• Data protection health check
• How to satisfy subject access requests
• Disabled access to websites under UK law
• The Freedom of Information Act and your organisation
• An introduction to IT outsourcing
• Checklist for outsourcing contracts

Recent OUT-LAW News

• Europe to probe state funding of new media
• Information Commissioner to focus on reducing risk, not enforcement
• Government must take data protection more seriously, says Parliament committee
• New code for watchdog's public sector data mining
• Rowling privacy win confirms proper test for privacy, says expert

Added-value services

We do a range of work for government bodies. Speak to one of our contacts: Louise Townsend or Rosemary Jay (Manchester, 0161 250 0100).