The Supreme Court’s judgment in Lloyd v Google is to be handed down next Wednesday. However the appeal is decided, the judgment of the Supreme Court will constitute a watershed moment in the development of the law on data protection, both within and beyond the field of data protection class actions.

11KBW’s Anya Proops QC , Christopher Knight and Rupert Paines will be giving their views of the judgment in a webinar taking place at 5pm on 16 November 2021.

You can register in advance for this webinar here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rh_fQMwLQFqHfuhlIY_f-g

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

We are very pleased to announce that we have been nominated for the following awards:

Media, Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Set of the Year

Media, Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Silk of the Year – Anya Proops QC

Employment Junior of the Year – Judy Stone

Human Rights and Public Law Set of the Year

Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year – Jason Coppel QC

Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year – Christopher Knight

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 18 November at Old Billingsgate, London.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our sell out Information Law Conference today. It was great to see so many people. A big thank you to Sir Patrick Elias who did a fabulous job chairing the event and our brilliant speakers. Looking forward to next year’s conference already!

11KBW will be holding a seminar on the High Court judgment in the critically important group litigation case of Various Claimants v WM Morrison Ltd. This hugely important judgment is to be considered at a seminar to be held at 6.00pm at 11KBW on 16 January 2018 at the Turing Lecture Theatre, IET London Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Pl, London WC2R 0BL.

Issues to be discussed will include:

– the court’s approach to the application of the seventh data protection principle concerning data security

– the court’s conclusion that the DPA could be construed so as to enable an innocent employer/data controller to be fixed with common law vicarious liability for a breach of the DPA effected by a third party data controller;

– the court’s analysis of the relationship between the DPA and the common law

– the court’s conclusion that the rogue employee was ‘acting in the course of his employment’ when he criminally disclosed the payroll data, notwithstanding that this disclosure was effected whilst the employee was off work and for the specific purpose of damaging his employer

– whether the GDPR may call for a different approach

Speakers will include Timothy Pitt-Payne QC and Robin Hopkins   Continue reading →

Last night, Channel 4 News reported on an undercover investigation into allegations that the Conservative Party had engaged in unlawful canvassing in the context of the recent general election. The report included an interview with 11KBW’s Anya Proops QC. You can watch the report here, and see also this article in the Guardian.