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Lexis®+ Information Law is an online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers dealing with Data Protection, Confidential Information, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Freedom of Information issues.
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Get a good background to data protection law and view practical guidance focused on data protection matters for commercial transactions. See also our UK GDPR compliant pro-party clauses for use in commercial agreements.
Confidential Information
Protect trade secrets and know-how using the law of confidentiality. Get information and a set of pro-party confidentiality agreements here.
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Lexis+® Information Law
It’s our online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers dealing with Data Protection, Confidential Information, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Freedom of Information issues.
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Latest Information Law News
The House of Lords has established a Special Public Bill Committee to examine the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL], which seeks to legislate on...
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has published a report examining the impact of the NIS 2 Directive on cybersecurity investments...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Information Law weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content related to...
Information Law analysis: In this full-merits review of a monetary penalty notice (MPN), the First-Tier Tribunal (FTT) considered an appeal by...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) have jointly published a Privacy...
Latest Information Law Practice Notes
Direct marketingFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 24 May 2024, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the Digital...
Online behavioural advertisingThis Practice Note considers the legal issues relating to online behavioural advertising (OBA), profiling and automated...
Digital advertising channels—introductionFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 24 May 2024, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill received Royal...
Children and data protection lawIn briefData protection laws in the UK seek to ensure information about living individuals (within the definition of...
Personal data sharing between controllersThis Practice Note explores issues and best practice relating to the sharing of personal data between...
Latest Information Law Precedents
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Policy—records retention (employment)FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The ICO has published draft guidance on keeping employment records, which is out for...
Database sale agreement—including provisions for personal data—pro-assignorThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name] [of OR a...
Personal data sharing clause—controller to controller—pro-receiving partyDefined terms: This Precedent clause uses the additional defined terms...
Personal data sharing agreement—independent controllers—one-wayThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of disclosing party] [of OR a...
Latest Information Law Q&As
Featured Information Law content
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)—Navigator
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)—NavigatorThis Practice Note serves as a reference guide to the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679...
Managing a breach of confidentiality or information security
Managing a breach of confidentiality or information securityMany companies and government bodies (such as HMRC) have been exposed to loss of...
Are recorded conversations between lay people legal and can they be used in legal proceedings?
What are the differences between joint controllers and controllers in common under the GDPR? What is the difference in liability if a party is a joint controller with another, compared to where the parties are controllers in common?
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent regulator designed to uphold...
Privacy law—misuse of private information
Privacy law—misuse of private informationThe tort of misuse of private information is focused on ‘the protection of human autonomy and dignity—the...
Data protection, privacy and confidential information case law tracker
Data protection, privacy and confidential information case law trackerThis Practice Note tracks noteworthy High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme...
Is someone’s voice personal identifiable information under GDPR? If someone is to do a voice over for content of some training for a business, would a consent form be needed?
Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPR
Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPRThis Practice Note provides a high-level introduction to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation,...
Key definitions under data protection law
Key definitions under data protection lawThis Practice Note provides further guidance on key definitions used in the EU’s General Data Protection...
UK GDPR—extra-territorial reach
UK GDPR—extra-territorial reachThis Practice Note discusses the territorial scope of the regime established by the United Kingdom General Data...
Letter of claim—breach of confidence
Letter of claim—breach of confidence[Insert name and address of recipient]Dear [insert organisation name],[Name of client] and confidential...
Confidential information, privacy and injunctions
Confidential information, privacy and injunctionsThis Practice Note deals with the general principles of obtaining an injunction relating to...
What does IP completion day mean for Information Law? [Archived]
What does IP completion day mean for Information Law? [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.11 pm (GMT) on 31...
List of data protection clauses and agreements for commercial transactions and personal data processing and sharing
List of data protection clauses and agreements for commercial transactions and personal data processing and sharingThis Practice Note is a...
Can a company cap its liability for breach of its data protection obligations under a contract?
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)This Practice Note provides a summary of the UK GDPR regime. For a higher-level introduction to UK...
Trade secrets and confidential information—protection and enforcement
Trade secrets and confidential information—protection and enforcementThis Practice Note sets out the protection available for trade secrets and...
Associated legal terms
Confidential journalistic material
“Confidential journalistic material” means— (a) in the case of material contained in a communication, journalistic material which the sender of the communication— (i) holds in confidence, or (ii) intends the recipient, or intended recipient, of the communication to hold in confidence; (b) in any other case, journalistic material which a person holds in confidence.
hearsay evidence
oral or written statements made by someone who is not a witness in the case but which the court is asked to accept as proving what they say. This expression is defined further by rule 20.1 for the purposes of Part 20, and by rule 33.1 for the purposes of Part 33;
Joint controller
Defined under the EU GDPR and UK GDPR as one of two or more controllers that jointly determine the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
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