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12.12.22
A right to erasure of police records? High Court orders Police to delete records of historic complaints
This article considers the recent judgment of AB v Chief Constable of British Transport Police [2022] EWHC 2749 (KB) and the practical implications when an individual makes a data subject access (‘DSAR’) or right to erasure request to the Police. What are the facts of AB ? The appellant, AB was 31-year-old-male who has Autistic…
Read more1.01.20
ICO hands down its first fine under the GDPR
On 17 December 2019 the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘the ICO’), the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and information rights, fined a London pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of personal data, including ‘special category’ data. This is the first administrative fine to be handed down by the ICO under the new data…
Read more25.11.19
Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Sword of Damocles or joke shop dagger?
Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA) were brought into being in 2014 by the Crime and Courts Act 2013. They are supposedly a way of recognising criminal conduct in large companies where such conduct was either conducted or sanctioned by senior management. In return for a recognition that criminal conduct had taken place and a commitment to…
Read more23.09.18
Barrister fined by ICO as unencrypted client data is uploaded on to the internet
A senior barrister has been fined £1,000.00 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) after unencrypted client data was accidentally uploaded to the internet by her husband. A total of 725 documents, containing information belonging to up to 250 people, were temporarily uploaded to an internet directory when the barrister’s husband was updating software on the…
Read more6.05.17
Serious Fraud Office Deferred Prosecution Agreement with Tesco approved
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Tesco Stores Ltd in relation to the overstating of profits in their 2014 accounts. This DPA follows similar agreements between the SFO and Standard Bank and Rolls-Royce Plc. The agreement was approved by the High Court on 10 April 2017 and makes…
Read more1.02.17
Libel/Defamation: Moroccan Prince wins libel and data protection appeal against Arabic news publisher
Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah Al Alouai of Morocco (‘the Prince’) has won an appeal against Elaph Publishing Limited (‘Elaph’) that now allows him to advance a claim under the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘DPA’) and also overturned a previous ruling that the words published were not capable of being defamatory. Factual background The Prince’s…
Read more30.01.17
Serious Fraud Office agrees to defer prosecution of Rolls Royce plc
Following a four year investigation into corruption and bribery, the Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) have entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (‘DPA’) with Rolls Royce Plc, the global engineering giant. The agreement was approved by the High Court on 17 January 2017 and, in effect, allows Rolls Royce to account for its conduct without facing…
Read more1.08.16
Serious Fraud Office publishes annual report
The Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) presented its annual report to Parliament on 20 July 2016. Established in 1988, the body investigates complex, data heavy, technically and legally challenging cases under the scrutiny of the Attorney General rather than the Home Office. The annual report shows promising statistics for the body’s survival under Theresa May’s premiership. …
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