21 February 2017
High Court underlines the importance of independence and speed in handling complaints
R (on the application of Jeffrey) v The Independent Police Complaints Commission [2017] EWHC 102 (Admin)
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
8 December 2016
What is the role of an investigator; should they make findings? A case summary
R. (on the application of Chief Executive of the IPCC) v Independent Police Complaints Commission and ors. [2016] EWHC 2993 (Admin)
15 November 2016
The first challenges to the EU-US Privacy Shield
Further to our last blog post, two separate challenges have been launched against the EU-US Privacy Shield. “Digital Rights Ireland” and “La Quadrature du Net” have separately begun proceedings to annul the European Commission’s approval of the adequacy decision of the Privacy Shield framework.
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.