Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : access to public documents must be ‘instrumental’ for the right to freedom of expression
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- Dirk Voorhoof (UGent) and Ronan O Fathaigh
- Organization
- Abstract
- In the case of Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in its judgment of 30 January 2020 has confirmed that the right to freedom of expression and information as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) can only be invoked in order to obtain access to public documents when a set of conditions are fulfilled. It is one of the cases following the judgment of the Grand Chamber in Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary to test the scope and limits of the right of access to information and the applicability of Article 10 ECHR. The most important consequence of the judgment in Studio Monitori and Others is that NGOs, journalists or other public watchdogs requesting access to public documents have to motivate and clarify in their request that access to the documents they are applying for is instrumental, and even necessary, for their journalistic reporting and that the requested documents contain information of public interest.
- Keywords
- Freedom of expression, access to public documents, NGO, journalist, public interest-test
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8655098
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- Voorhoof, Dirk, and Ronan O Fathaigh. “Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : Access to Public Documents Must Be ‘instrumental’ for the Right to Freedom of Expression.” STRASBOURG OBSERVERS, no. 23/03/2020, Human Rights Centre Ghent University, 2020.
- APA
- Voorhoof, D., & O Fathaigh, R. (2020). Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : access to public documents must be “instrumental” for the right to freedom of expression. Ghent: Human Rights Centre Ghent University.
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- Voorhoof, Dirk, and Ronan O Fathaigh. 2020. “Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : Access to Public Documents Must Be ‘instrumental’ for the Right to Freedom of Expression.” STRASBOURG OBSERVERS. Ghent: Human Rights Centre Ghent University.
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- Voorhoof, Dirk, and Ronan O Fathaigh. 2020. “Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : Access to Public Documents Must Be ‘instrumental’ for the Right to Freedom of Expression.” STRASBOURG OBSERVERS. Ghent: Human Rights Centre Ghent University.
- Vancouver
- 1.Voorhoof D, O Fathaigh R. Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : access to public documents must be “instrumental” for the right to freedom of expression. STRASBOURG OBSERVERS. Ghent: Human Rights Centre Ghent University; 2020.
- IEEE
- [1]D. Voorhoof and R. O Fathaigh, “Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : access to public documents must be ‘instrumental’ for the right to freedom of expression,” STRASBOURG OBSERVERS, no. 23/03/2020. Human Rights Centre Ghent University, Ghent, 2020.
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abstract = {{In the case of Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in its judgment of 30 January 2020 has confirmed that the right to freedom of expression and information as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) can only be invoked in order to obtain access to public documents when a set of conditions are fulfilled. It is one of the cases following the judgment of the Grand Chamber in Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary to test the scope and limits of the right of access to information and the applicability of Article 10 ECHR. The most important consequence of the judgment in Studio Monitori and Others is that NGOs, journalists or other public watchdogs requesting access to public documents have to motivate and clarify in their request that access to the documents they are applying for is instrumental, and even necessary, for their journalistic reporting and that the requested documents contain information of public interest.}},
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title = {{Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia : access to public documents must be ‘instrumental’ for the right to freedom of expression}},
year = {{2020}},
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