Predictions 2014: Batch 3
Another five predictions, covering law and IT for lawyers with great perception. In alphabetical order, we have predictions from Mark Crichard, Joanna Goodman, Dr Monica Horten, Jane Seager and Graham Smith….
Privacy & Data Protection
Celebrating 40 years of SCL at the House of Commons
Helen Hart reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Dinner…
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It’s Raining NDAs
Paul Klinger and Rachel Burnett discuss the content and procedures involved in effective non-disclosure agreements….
Data Protection Proliferation in the Asia-Pacific
Janine Regan contemplates the rising importance attached to data protection in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region…
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Predictions 2014: Batch 2
The focus on SCL’s 40 years begins to dim after the House of Commons celebration and we refocus on the future. Here, in keeping with our, fairly desperate, Christmas music theme are five gold and ringing predictions, in strict alphabetical order, from Charles Holloway, Ben Horton, Marion Oswald, Michael Taylor and Mike Taylor….
Further Criminal Prosecution under the DPA
A GP surgery manager has been prosecuted for illegally
accessing patients’ medical records…
Predictions 2014: Batch 1
The Christmas music has been in the shops for weeks and a Christmas card has been received so it must be time for the SCL Predictions to begin. In strict alphabetical order, and in a complete reversal of the Christmas song, we begin with 12 lords (and ladies) a leaping: Kit Burden, Jan Durant, Beverley Flynn, Paul Gershlick, Andrew Haslam, Tom Hiskey, Stewart James, Daniel Pollick, Joe Reevy, John Salmon, Callum Sinclair and Peter Sommer…
Cake or Death?
With the Upper Tribunal suggesting that seeking a discount on a data protection monetary penalty notice and still appealing was to have the cake and eat it too, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask how you can lose the right to appeal a £500,000 data fine….
Private Investigators Convicted of Unlawfully Obtaining Personal Information
Two men who ran a company that tricked organisations into revealing personal details about customers were found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act on 20 November….
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Information Governance Survey
A report following a new survey suggests that inadequate information governance practices are putting UK companies at risk…