Access to administrative documents and to public sector information in Italy

Law No. 241 of 1990 on administrative procedure (Italian APA) established general rules on the right of access to administrative documents for the first time in the Italian legal system, which partly reproduced rules defined in sectorial legislations. From such very restrictive regime of access to administrative documents\u2014lately accompanied by a rather demagogical obligation imposed on public administrations to disclose a set of information in the context of the so-called open data policies\u2014Italy has recently moved forth to public access to data and documents held by public administrations

L\u2019unione tra persone dello stesso sesso in una recente pronuncia della Corte di Cassazione. Ci sono novit\ue0 ? E, se s\uec, quali ?

The research work examines the long judgment of the Italian Corte di cassazione n. 4184 of 2012 about the union among people of the same sex. The Author sustains the thesis of the contradictory of the sentence and the only apparent innovations introduced by the same. Beyond of what can seems, one thing is to sustain the possibility to contract \uabmarriage\ubb from people of the same sex (which is forbidden by the Italian legal system) and other is to believe that some rights of the homosexual couples need to be guaranteed. Which the legislator can do (but it could be done even before the judgement in exam), without any necessity to resort to the matrimonial institute

Commento all'art. 79 c.p.a., sezione II

L'A. commenta l'art. 79 del c.p.a. per la parte dedicata alla sospensione del processo per rinvio alla Corte costituzionale di una questione pregiudiziale costituzionale, anche con riferimento a un giudizio 'a quo' che insorga nel corso della fase cautelare del processo amministrativo, nonché al giudizio di legittimità costituzionale avente ad oggetto leggi-provvedimento