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Data Protection Monetary Penalties: Absolutely Criminal?

In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…

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Latest ECJ Ruling on Consumer Protection and Cross-border Sales

In a new ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that a consumer may sue a foreign trader with whom he has concluded a contract before the national courts where it is established that the trader has directed his activities to the consumer’s State, even if the means used to so direct his activities were not the basis for the conclusion of the contract…

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Be Trained . . . Get Accredited: Introducing the SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme

Practising IT Law is not for the faint-hearted. At any moment you could be asked to advise on any number of issues, from the liabilities and risks in an IT supply contract, through data protection of employee records to complex e-commerce issues. All the advice you give must be thoroughly grounded in the relevant law…

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