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16 October 2015
Issue: 7672 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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EU

Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner C-362/14, [2015] All ER (D) 34 (Oct)

The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling, deciding that, on the proper construction of Art 25(6) of Council Directive (EC) 95/46, Commission Decision (EC) 2000/520, which found that the US ensured an adequate level of data protection, was invalid.

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A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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