You can find it here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/pdfs/ukpga_20180012_en.pdf … all 339 pages. Happy reading all.
Anya Proops QC
Morrisons group action: claimants win, but get only 40% of their costs
Needless to say, group actions for data protection breaches will generally be shaped by financial considerations. Those are partly about compensation, but also about costs. To make it worthwhile, claimants need not only to win and be awarded compensation, but also to get their costs covered, or at least not have their costs eat too far into their compensation. On this issue, today’s costs judgment in the Morrisons litigation is novel, interesting and instructive in practice. Continue reading
The Data Protection Act 2018: nearly there
My post below from earlier this week contained some head-scratching about timings for GDPR implementation. When will our Data Protection Bill make further progress through Parliament, I asked? We now have an answer: the Bill will have its report and third reading stages on 9 May. We’ll miss the deadline for implementing the Law Enforcement Directive (6 May), but never mind. The proposed amendments up for debate next week are here.
GDPR implementation: minor changes and big questions
With the GDPR taking effect later this month, the Council of the EU has done its last round of proof-reading and made some changes to the final GDPR text. Most of those will be inconsequential for the majority of controllers and processors. Meanwhile, on this side of the Channel, a much bigger question remains unanswered: when exactly will we get our Data Protection Act 2018? Continue reading
Throttling Environmental Information
As is so often the way in information rights, the Upper Tribunal reaches a perfectly sensible decision and gives practical guidance which others can actually apply, only for the Court of Appeal to insist on saying mostly the same thing but less clearly and less helpfully. As a result, the Upper Tribunal then has to reconsider the area and steer the law back to a productive course. Continue reading
Open Up! Access to Upper Tribunal Files
The Upper Tribunal has its own rules. It is not governed by the CPR. Inevitably, this leaves some gaps on occasion. One of those which occasionally puzzles people interested in the system is that there is no equivalent to CPR rule 5.4C, which allows non-parties the right to ask to see the court file. So can a non-party get access to an Upper Tribunal file, whether or not the material has been referred to in an open hearing? Continue reading