Publications
We publish only what can survive a hostile reading. Everything here is free, may be reproduced with attribution, and carries the date it was last revised.
Available
Every document carries the date it was last revised. Where the underlying rules change, the document is revised rather than left to age quietly.
How to read a sanction order, a tender notice, an audit observation, and a budget line — and what each one can and cannot tell you on its own.
Written for the Transparency Fellows cycle and released publicly because the material is not specialised. Most public failure is administrative rather than dramatic, and it is legible to anyone willing to read slowly.
What to do when an RTI application is refused or ignored: the timeline, the authority, the form of the appeal, and an honest account of what an appeal can achieve.
The first appeal is free and built into the Act, and most applicants never use it. This guide exists because the gap between applications filed and appeals pursued is the largest avoidable loss in the whole process.
The guarantees that attach the moment a person is detained or called to a police station, on a card that fits in a wallet.
Grounds of arrest, the right to inform a relative, legal representation, production before a magistrate, and the separate protections for women and for minors.
A short statement of the limits of non-statutory grievance work, written because those limits are routinely misdescribed to the people who need them explained.
We hold no statutory power, cannot compel any authority, cannot direct an investigation, and cannot guarantee representation. This note sets out what remains once all of that is said — which is more than people expect.
The internal standard the documentation desk works to: consent, dating, reference numbers, separation of identity from analysis, and the correction policy.
Published because an organisation that documents other people's failures should be legible about its own method.
In preparation
Listed here so that nobody has to guess whether a document exists. When it is ready it moves up the page.
Document checklists and statutory timelines for the entitlements our welfare desk is asked about most often.
Everything we publish may be copied, translated, printed, and distributed without asking us, including for use by other organisations. We ask only that the source is named and that the text is not altered in a way that changes its meaning — particularly the passages setting out limits, which exist precisely because they are the parts most often dropped.
Corrections
Corrections are published with the date of the original error and the date of the correction. They are not edited in quietly.
