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Suing For Access To China Government Information

The Chinese Law Prof blog has a fascinating (at least for legal geeks) post on the first Beijing lawsuit to access government information under the Regulations on Open Government Information which came into effect on May 1. Such a case would have been... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Fri, Jun 20 2008

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