informationrightsandwrongs

The last time I did a personal fundraising appeal was several years ago.

(Reposted from LinkedIn) In a judgment handed down on 17 July, Mrs Justice Hill ruled on a claim in harassment, breach of confidence, misuse of private information and data protection, arising out of disputes at the Yacht Club involving its former “Commod…

Direct electronic marketing law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR)) provides limited exceptions to the duty only to send unsolicited direct marketing to individual subscribers when those recipients have conse…

I realise that I’ve written reams on LinkedIn, but nothing here, to reflect the ignominious departure of Information Commissioner, John Edwards.

Many will be aware that there has been a recent “independent workplace investigation” into the conduct of John Edwards, Information Commissioner.

How Scotland’s men’s football team’s performance has potentially afforded data controllers all across the UK (and wider) an extra day to comply with some data subject access requests.

Rather unsurprisingly, a rather surprising application, in databreach proceedings, for anonymity for all 2502 claimants has been dismissed by the High Court.

We need to talk about open justice in the Information Rights jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal.

The Court of Appeal has handed down an important judgment (RTM v Bonne Terre Ltd & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 488) on the meaning of “consent” in the context of data protection and ePrivacy law, and overturned what had been a problematic prior judgment of the H…

In Thompson & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2026] EWHC 915 (Admin) the Divisional Court has roundly dismissed an application for judicial review of the Met Police’s “Overt LFR Policy Document” for deployment in