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Recently, we have been closely following a number of ongoing and fresh lawsuits brought in the English courts involving some interesting Environmental Safety Group (ESG) related issues....
A law firm is bringing the action on behalf of 1.6 million patients at the Royal Free NHS Trust.
After protracted challenges to class certification status, in Merricks v Mastercard the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) granted its first collective proceedings order (CPO). The...
Plus: Anti-Chocolate Factory campaign says it'll collect all the class-action damages, thank you Gareth Corfield Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 15:55 UTC Share Copy A barrister for the Information Commissioner's Office hinted the regulator would stop enforcing the law on data breaches if the Supreme Court sides with Google in a case about class-action lawsuits. The startling threat was made on behalf of the ICO by barrister Gerry Facenna QC, who was intervening on the authority's behalf in the Lloyd v Google data protection case. "If a large number of data subjects have had their ...
[6] Data related collective actions can generally be divided into two broad categories: (i) “unauthorized use of personal data” cases, where the firm controlling personal data allegedly uses it in an unauthorized manner; and (ii) “unauthorized access to personal data” cases where a third party (e.g. hackers) improperly accesses private data for malicious reasons. This article discusses some of the key legal and economic issues that arise in matters involving the unauthorized use of, or unauthorised access to, personal data in the UK. [7] Data Protection Laws in the UK “Personal data...