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TMT analysis: In a trial of preliminary issues (TPI) in a defamation claim, the court found that 26 extracts complained of in Financial Times...
Information Law analysis: The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by Associated Newspapers Ltd regarding the claim against it by the Duchess of...
This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes news that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced its provisional...
This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes news of the outcome of the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB’s) latest plenary,...
Information Law analysis: Claims for compensation for alleged data protection infringements continue unabated. While the recent UK Supreme Court...
Facsimile seals and signaturesA facsimile seal or signature is essentially a duplicate of the original. With regard to seals, it is a duplicate of the...
Rights of data subjectsThis Practice Note explores the rights provided to individuals whose personal data is processed under the EU’s or UK’s ‘GDPR’...
Data portabilityUK and EU data protection laws each include a right to data portability. That right allows individuals to obtain from a controller a...
Data protection principlesThis Practice Note covers the principles for handling personal data that form the core of the ‘GDPR’ regimes applicable in...
Lawful basis for personal data processingThis Practice Note explains the lawful bases for processing personal data under both the EU’s and UK’s ‘GDPR’...
Key terms for insertion into a services contract for the appointment of a data protection representative in the UK or EEANote: This precedent includes...
Non-confidential disclosure letter agreement[insert address of sender]Our ref: [insert reference]Your ref: [insert reference][insert address of...
Personal data breach plan1Introduction1.1This personal data breach plan:1.1.1places obligations on staff to report actual or suspected personal data...
Data protection impact assessment—DPIA1Project overviewProject summary[Summarise the project, eg new IT system for storing and accessing personal...
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000[Insert address of applicant][Insert name of public authority][Insert address of...
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)—NavigatorThis Practice Note serves as a reference guide to the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679...
Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPRIn briefData protection law in both the EEA (the EU plus Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein) and UK is intended...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent regulator designed to uphold...
Managing a breach of confidentiality or information securityMany companies and government bodies (such as HMRC) have been exposed to loss of...
What does IP completion day mean for Information Law?11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marked the end of the implementation period put in place to...
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)This Practice Note provides a summary of the UK GDPR regime. The processing of personal data by...
Letter of claim—breach of confidence[Insert name and address of recipient]Dear [insert organisation name],[Name of client] and confidential...
Trade secrets and confidential information—protection and enforcementThis Practice Note sets out the protection available for trade secrets and...
UK GDPR and EU GDPR—transfers of personal data internationally and to international organisationsIn briefData protection laws in both the EEA (the EU...
Data portabilityUK and EU data protection laws each include a right to data portability. This right allows individuals to obtain from a controller a...
List of data protection clauses and agreements for commercial transactions and personal data processing and sharingThis Practice Note is a...
Determining roles under data protection law in commercial transactions between businesses (processor, independent controller or joint controller)In...
Standard contractual clauses for international transfers—2004 (set II)—controller to controller—ICO templatesIn briefThis precedent links to: •a...
The Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is the primary mechanism for supporting low-carbon electricity generation in the UK, via a private law contract between a low carbon electricity generator and the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), which provides long term revenue stabilisation for low carbon generation.
In a liquidated damages clause, the parties to a contract fix in advance a sum of money to be paid by the defaulting party to the innocent party in the event of a breach. Liquidated damages are recoverable (where not a penalty) without the need to prove the loss suffered.
The renewables obligation subsidy scheme (RO scheme) was intended to support investment in renewable generation projects. On 31 March 2017 the RO scheme closed to most types of newly commissioned generating station/extensions to generating station, subject to certain grace periods.
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