Can We Write Better Contracts?
Andrew Hooles thinks that we can. His article suggests several areas for improvement and is intended to be a call to action….
Litigation & DR
The EU-US Safe Harbour Decision is Dead. Long Live its Successor?
Julia Hörnle analyses the Schrems judgment in depth and considers its implications…
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EU Commission Communication on Transfer of Personal Data
The EU Commission has published guidance on transfers of personal data following the Schrems judgment of the CJEU…
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The Penalty Spot: The ParkingEye and Cavendish Square Holding BV Decisions
Helen Hart and Jon English report on the Supreme Court judgment and consider its implications for IT lawyers…
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Monetary Penalty for CPS
The ICO has given details of its latest monetary penalty…
Investigatory Powers Bill
The long awaited Bill has now been published…
A Quick Overview of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
Neil Brown’s overview comes with a ‘health warning’: this is based on a very quick review of the draft bill and recollections of discussions from consultation meetings on this issue. Let him know what he’s got wrong(!) at draft_IP_bill@neilzone.co.uk.
Neil offers this article as ‘food for thought’ and to help discussion. It is based on what he found interesting. It is of course neither complete nor legal advice and was written in his personal capacity….
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Cases Round-up
Data Exchange between Administrative Bodies Needs Notice The CJEU has given judgment in Case C-201/14 Smaranda Bara and Others v Presedintele Casei Nationale de Asigurari de Sanatate and Others. It held that, where personal data is subject to transfer and processing between public administrative bodies, the data subject must be informed in advance. Facts Ms…
Practical Advice in the Aftermath of Safe Harbour and the Schrems Ruling
In the second of our series of articles on Schrems, Natasha Simmons takes a sober look at the judgment in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner and gives some practical guidance…
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Finally… PSD2
Simon Deane-Johns reviews the final version of the new Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market. This article supersedes his article published online in June 2015….