So, as the saying goes, you wait months for a subject access judgment, and then three come along at once. First it was Holyoake v CPC & Christian Candy (see Julian Milford’s post here); then it was Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing (see Chris Knight’s post here) and now, drum-roll, we have the joined appeals of Ittihadieh v 5-11 Cheyne Gardens & Ors and Deer v Oxford University [2017] EWCA Civ 121.
As ever with these cases, the facts are somewhat less than scintillating. Briefly:
We have banged the drum on Panopticon to almost Phil Collins-like levels on theme of the growing utility of the Data Protection Act to media lawyers, but it would be foolish to pretend it can always produce an answer from nowhere in a traditional journalism context. The judgment in ZXC v Bloomberg LP [2017] EWHC 328 (QB) reminds us of that. Continue reading
Remember how for years a data protection claim would be bunged on the end of a libel and/or privacy complaint, receiving little to no judicial or litigation attention, because it was seen as a boring tecchie subject few understood? Those days have been over for some time (as us DPA drum-bangers have been pointing out), and the Queen’s Bench Division now agrees. A new Media and Communications List has been created within the QBD, to be headed up by Warby J. Continue reading
Our Information Law Conference will be taking place on Monday 27 March 2017. We are delighted to announce that Lord Toulson will be giving the key note address at this year’s event.
The conference will be held at the The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE
Click here for the conference agenda.
For more details on how to book your place at the conference click here.
Hot off the presses comes the first of the Court of Appeal’s two forays into data protection law this term: Dawson-Damer v Tayor Wessing LLP [2017] EWCA Civ 74. It is an important decision and one well worth reading, particularly while waiting for round 2 (which has some overlaps) in Ittihadieh v 5-11 Cheyne Gardens / Deer v University of Oxford (likely to be handed down in the next month or so). Continue reading
So, data protection fans, what do you think of this?
“… data protection laws reach into and are employed in rather surprising circumstances. It generates, not just for the uninformed bystander, a certain intellectual unease as to the reasonable use and function of data protection rules.” Continue reading
