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Data Breach Claims

March

Legal Article

Ministry of Justice served with Enforcement Notice by the ICO

23/03/22

On the 18th January 2022, the ICO published that enforcement action was to be taken against the Ministry of Justice for its contravention of Section 45 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Article 15 of the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulations, in that it had failed to provide over 7,500 data…

Legal Article

Stadler v Currys

16/03/22

The Case The claimant (Mr Stadler) had purchased a TV from Currys in 2016. He then had cause to return the TV for repairs, but before doing so he did not log out of the various apps, he had installed. The defendant (Currys) were unable to fix the TV, and as it was not economically viable to repair…

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February

Legal Article

Ali v Luton Borough Council

23/02/22

In the recent judgment of Ali v Luton Borough Council [2022] EWHC 132 (QB), the High Court have applied the principles governing vicarious liability used in the previously decided Supreme Court decision in Various Claimants v Morrisons Supermarkets [2020] AC 989. Background to the Case The…

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Innocent until proven guilty

22/02/22

The Supreme court has ruled that "suspects have a right to privacy and cannot be named by the press before they are charged". The case concerned Bloomberg who published an article about a prominent US citizen and chief executive, of a prominent business, alleging that they were the…

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