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MLex has published a new special report entitled ‘Is the GDPR doing its job?’, which looks at the trends in General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) enforcement across the 27 EU Member States, the UK, and three EEA countries since it came into force on 25 May 2018.

The appointment of Liz Truss has postponed the second reading of the complex Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which had been due to take place this week

‘Minimal’ activity such as offering subscriptions in the UK is enough to make a US online magazine subject to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the Court of Appeal has held in a landmark case

Former New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has been confirmed as the new Information Commissioner

Lawyers have welcomed the European Commission’s decision that UK data protection standards are ‘adequate’―however, weakening standards could lead to immediate revocation

Partner Mei-Ling Huang announced as new chair

On 26 May 2021 the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled in R (on the application of Open Rights Group and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another (Liberty and another intervening) [2021] EWCA Civ 800 that the so-called 'immigration exemption' in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Data Protection Act 2018, which restricts certain data subject rights, was incompatible with Article 23 of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR).

The UK’s mass surveillance regime breaches the right to privacy and freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has held, in a landmark ruling.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on cyber security risks for law firms—the time to act on them is now, says Frances McLeod

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched a consultation on a proposal to make a change to the professional indemnity insurance (PI) minimum terms and conditions (MTCs).

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Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation

NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere

Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group

NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall

A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision

NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?

An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading

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Data protection

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Blake Morgan—four promotions