Blog
From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
3 January 2017
To what extent is an appellate disciplinary tribunal entitled to interfere with a finding made by a panel of first instance when that finding is predicated on primarily hearsay evidence
Squire v Thames Valley Police & Anor (R. on the Application of) [2016] EWCA Civ 1315
16 November 2016
What role should personal mitigation play in disciplinary proceedings where a police officer is found to have committed gross misconduct?
R (on the application of Darren Williams) v Police Appeals Tribunal [2016] EWHC 2708 (Admin)
27 October 2016
Data Protection Regulation blog series
Over the next few months, lawyers from Kingsley Napley will be blogging about how data protection law will change in their respective practice areas following the coming into effect in the UK of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) in May 2018.
As will be explained over the coming months, although the UK has voted to leave the EU individuals and businesses in the UK still need to have regard to the provisions of the GDPR and how it will change data protection law.
This first blog post will outline (in brief) the history of the GDPR.
26 October 2016
Coming clean on data security breaches
There is currently no legal obligation under the Data Protection Act 1998 for data controllers to report to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) any breaches of data security that have led to losses of personal data – although the ICO strongly encourages controllers to bring “serious breaches” to their attention.
18 October 2016
Public law challenges and the Great Repeal Bill
The Prime Minister, Theresa May MP, and the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis MP, have both recently announced that the next Queen’s Speech will include a “Great Repeal Bill” (the “Bill”). The primary purpose of the Bill will be to provide for the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972, the Act through which European Union (“EU”) law is given supremacy in the UK. The Bill is therefore meant to give effect to the outcome of the June 2016 referendum result. As explained by Mr Davis to the Commons on 10 October 2016, the Bill will “end the authority of [EU] law” and “return sovereignty to the institutions of this United Kingdom”.