Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI), many public sector organisations regularly receive requests for access to contracts, tenders, bid prices and other commercially sensitive information. This requires examination of the FOI exemptions as well as analysis of other areas of law such as Breach of Confidence, EU Procurement Law and Contract Law. FOI also needs to be considered when drafting and negotiating contracts and tenders.

This highly practical workshop is designed to examine the key issues around giving access to commercially sensitive and contract information owned by public authorities or received from private sector partners through contracts and tenders.  We will look at all the latest decisions from Information Commissioner and the Information Tribunal as well as the drafting of confidentiality and FOI clauses. Also suitable for the private sector and their advisers.