Sentences with phrase «black spider memos»

Applications such as that for access to Prince Charles» «black spider memos» would be «doomed to failure» if they were to be made in future, according to Mark Elliott, Reader in Public Law, Cambridge University, since «s 37 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 was amended in 2010 so as to render communications with the heir to the throne absolutely exempt from disclosure».

A Freedom of Information tribunal decided in 2012 on the application of the Guardian newspaper that the Prince's handwritten letters (dubbed the «black spider memos») should be released because the public had a right to see how he had sought to influence government.

The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle, of the so - called «black spider memos» sent by the Prince to ministers over several years.

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My article on the Evans case — «A Tangled Constitutional Web: The Black - Spider Memos and the British Constitution's Relational Architecture» — was published in Public Law in October 2015.