The European Court of Human Rights and Access to Information: Clarifying the Status, with Room for Improvement
Nani Jansen Reventlow and Jonathan McCully*On 8 November 2016, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights handed down a much-anticipated judgment on the right of access to information. While the Court was clearer and firmer than it had ever been before on the status of the right to access information as part of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention, it stopped short of acknowledging access to information as a fully-fledged right under the provision.
The case of Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary concerned an information request that had…
