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Civil way: 8 June 2018

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08 June 2018
Issue: 7796 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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GDPR nice bits; how to meet a LiP; ‘It was me or my wife’; company address changes

FUNDS FUN

No need to be intimidated by the Court Funds Office’s updates on 25 May 2018 of its 33 forms. The amendment to each form is restricted to the addition of a link to its privacy notice. The old forms may still be used.

GDPR ANTIDOTE 1st DOSE

Significant decisions made solely on automated processing (SOAP) are now challengeable under s 14 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (commenced on 25 May 2018 by SI 2018/625 and see Art 22(2)(b) of GDPR). We could be looking here at knockbacks for mortgage and other credit applications and recruitment aptitude tests. The controller must give written notification to the data subject as soon as reasonably practicable that a SOAP decision has been made. Within one month the subject may request reconsideration or a new non-SOAP decision. The controller must comply without undue delay and in any event within one month with that period extendable by up to two

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Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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