Our Data Litigation & Regulation – How do the UK and US compare? webinar due to start at 3pm this afternoon has been POSTPONED. A new date will be confirmed as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience is caused.
Totally Without Merit: A Consultation
Another week, another Upper Tribunal consultation. This time, the Tribunal Procedure Committee is inviting responses – by 16 August 2021 – on proposals to amend the Upper Tribunal Rules to enable judges to certify applications for permission to appeal as ‘totally without merit’, and thus removing the right to renew that application at an oral hearing. The changes would effectively align the UT with the position under the CPR, in relation to both applications for permission to claim judicial review and applications for permission to appeal. Given that it is just – just – possible that readers of this blog working in information rights may have come across litigants who make totally without merit applications, the consultation may be of interest. It is to be found here.
Christopher Knight
TIGRR Warning: the PM’s Taskforce on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform
Last week, the Prime Ministerial Taskforce on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform (known more catchily as TIGRR) published a 130-page report setting out a “new regulatory framework” for the UK. It offers a possible glimpse of the future of data regulation. Continue reading
Information Law Virtual Conference 2021
11KBW’s Annual Information Law Conference begins tomorrow with the first of nine webinars running from 16 June to 5 July. Tomorrow’s offering, chaired by 11KBW’s Christopher Knight, is ‘Data Privacy in the public law arena’. The conference has already attracted significant numbers, ranging from 540 to 700 registrants per webinar. If you have not yet signed up but wish to do so, please email RSVP@11kbw.com.
Data privacy class actions here and abroad
Data privacy class actions are currently big business in the UK. For those of you who are interested in how the UK position compares with the position within the EU, you might want to attend this British Institute of International and Comparative Law webinar on 8 June at 5pm: Damages Claims for Mass Data Breaches: UK and European Perspectives (biicl.org) . Note that 11KBW’s information law conference later this month includes a webinar comparing the UK and US positions.
Anya Proops QC
The Grand Chamber, Bulk Interception and a Curate’s Egg
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has handed down judgment (over 200 pages of it) in relation to the UK’s bulk interception of communications regime as it stood under section 8(4) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 in Big Brother Watch & others v UK (App. No.s 58170/13, 62322/14 and 24969/15), and made important findings that the regime was not in accordance with law and thus breached Article 8 ECHR. Continue reading