About Information Law
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.
Data protection
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.
Key information law developments
View a range of trackers to enable horizon scanning and monitoring of key developments. The trackers are maintained - making them useful for keeping up-to-date and for business development.
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
MLex: UK essential-services providers could be banned from using or installing tech products considered a national security risk under amendments...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a consultation on draft guidance on the use of anonymisation and pseudonymisation for...
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert following increased targeting of operational technology (OT) systems across multiple...
This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content related to laws...
MLex: Uber has been fined €825 million (USD 960 million) by the Dutch Data Protection Authority under EU data protection rules for deactivating driver...
Latest Information Law Practice Notes
Licensing IP rights—introductionDrafting IP licences can raise a number of commercial and legal issues, which are often complex and lead to much...
Boilerplate provisions in public sector contractsThis Practice Note looks at payment of subcontractor clauses in public sector contracts. For more...
Nature of boilerplate provisions in public sector contractsLawyers work on a huge variety of transactions, but all of them will in some way involve...
Boilerplate provisions in public sector contractsThis Practice Note looks at human rights clauses in public sector contracts. For more information on...
Boilerplate provisions in public sector contractsThis Practice Note looks at freedom of information clauses in public sector contracts. For more...
Latest Information Law Precedents
1. Name of applicant[insert details]2. If the applicant is requesting info on behalf of a third party, third party’s name[insert details]3. Address...
Case No. [insert number]IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICEBUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND & WALESINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LIST (ChD)[INTELLECTUAL...
Note: These provisions are drafted on the assumption that the relevant agreement is a business to business arrangement under which the supplier acts...
Policy version: [insert date of this policy][—for previous versions of this policy see here][Insert name of mobile app] [for [insert operating...
FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published draft guidance on recruitment and selection. It remains under review...
Latest Information Law Q&As
Featured Information Law content
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)—Navigator [Archived]
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)—NavigatorThis Practice Note serves as a reference guide to the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679...
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...
Confidentiality agreement—mutual
Confidentiality agreement—mutualThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of party] [of [insert details ] OR a company incorporated in...
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...
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...
Are recorded conversations between lay people legal and can they be used in legal proceedings?
Is it standard for a non-disclosure agreement to contain liability limitations (eg for loss of information and/or breach) and what arguments could be used to seek to remove any such provisions added by another party?
In the context of confidentiality agreements, what constitutes an ‘indirect’ disclosure? Is it necessary to specifically use the word ‘indirect’ to capture all types of disclosure by the main disclosing party?
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Commercial use of photographs—data protection and privacy issues
Commercial use of photographs—data protection and privacy issuesThis Practice Note addresses issues affecting professional photographers taking...
Letter of claim—breach of data protection law
Letter of claim—breach of data protection law[Insert name and address of recipient]Dear [insert organisation name],[Name of client] and breach of data...
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...
Confidential information, privacy and injunctions
Confidential information, privacy and injunctionsThis Practice Note deals with the general principles of obtaining an injunction relating to...
The Data Protection Act 2018
The Data Protection Act 2018This Practice Note introduces the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).For higher-level introductions to data...
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?
Associated legal terms
‘Confidential Information’—one-way—pro-discloser
means all information of a confidential nature (in whatever form) which relates to the Purpose and is received or acquired (whether directly or indirectly) by [Party B][, its Authorised Persons][ or its Affiliates] including: (a) any know-how, trade secrets, financial, commercial, technical, tactical or strategic information of any kind; (b) all information produced, developed or derived from information disclosed pursuant to this Agreement; (c) all information agreed to be, or marked as, confidential; (d) the information specified in Schedule [insert Schedule number] to this Agreement; (e) any information [Party B][, its Affiliates][ or [its OR their ]Authorised Persons] knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is confidential; and (f) [the terms and existence of this Agreement.] but excluding any information which: (a) is, or was already known or available to [Party B], otherwise than pursuant to or through breach of any confidentiality obligation owed to [Party A]; (b) is, or becomes, in the public domain other than through any breach of this Agreement (save that any publicly available information shall be classified as Confidential Information where it is compiled in a form that is not in the public domain); (c) is disclosed to [Party B] without any obligation of confidence to [Party A] by a third party who is not itself under or in breach of any obligation of confidentiality; (d) is developed by or on behalf of [Party B] in circumstances where the developing party has not had direct or indirect access to the information disclosed, provided that [Party B] provides satisfactory evidence of the same to [Party A]; (e) [Party A] agrees in writing does not constitute Confidential Information.
gastric illness
'gastric illness' means any gastrointestinal illness arising from a contract'>breach of contract or breach of statutory duty or common law duty in respect of services, food and beverages provided in relation to a package holiday
Personal data breach
Under the EU GDPR or UK GDPR, a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
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