News and comments from a UK Information Rights perspective
The last time I did a personal fundraising appeal was several years ago. I m still fundraising for the same reason. Within a relatively short period of a few years both my parents suffered from and died from dementia, and so Continue reading
(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 Continue reading
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 consented. Those exceptions are in regulation 22(3), Continue reading
I realise that I’ve written reams on LinkedIn, but nothing here, to reflect the ignominious departure of Information Commissioner, John Edwards. This is cobbled together from those posts. Very early on the morning of 19 June, Information Commissioner John Edwards Continue reading
Many will be aware that there has been a recent independent workplace investigation into the conduct of John Edwards, Information Commissioner. A few days after news was announced that the initial investigation had revealed he had a case to answer Continue reading
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. By me, on the Mishcon de Reya website https://www.mishcon.com/news/dsar-time-limits-and-an-extra-bank-holiday
Rather unsurprisingly, a rather surprising application, in databreach proceedings, for anonymity for all 2502 claimants has been dismissed by the High Court. In Secake Ors v Shared Services Connected Ltd (Rev1) [2026] EWHC 1022 (KB), Mr Justice Saini was Continue reading
We need to talk about open justice in the Information Rights jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal. The Tribunal has just handed down a decision rejecting an appeal by the National Archives against a decision by the Information Commissioner s Office that Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading