Increased data subject access rights when the General Data Protection Regulation takes effect next month could ‘wreak havoc’, Collyer Bristow solicitors Patrick Wheeler and Mette Marie Sutton write in this week’s NLJ. They report concerns that individuals could use data requests as a weapon against businesses. In the context of employment disputes, data requests are already being used to obtain early disclosure of information. Wheeler and Sutton note that ‘it is easy to see how a co-ordinated set of requests by a large number of individuals made at the same time could be time consuming, expensive and cause huge disruption’.
19 April 2018
GDPR 'havoc' on the way?
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NEWS
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts
An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ
Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
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