'Of data and judges: the conundrum of public access to information from the court' - Judith Townend: CIPIL Seminar

Dr Judith Townend, lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, spoke on the topic of 'Of data and judges: the conundrum of public access to information from the court' at a seminar on 2 March 2018. Dr Judith Townend is lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, where she specialises in research relating to freedom of expression and access to information. She has been preoccupied by courts data since 2011 and has written for a wide range of media and academic publications. Prior to joining Sussex in 2016, she was lecturer and director of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Her route into socio-legal research was relatively unorthodox, having studied Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate before training and working in journalism at the beginning of her career. Her doctoral studies at City University's Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism focused on the so-called 'chilling effect' phenomenon in the context of defamation and privacy law. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk