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NLJ this week: Data leaks―what are the limits to litigation?

23 March 2022
Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber
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How do the courts treat low-level data protection claims, inadvertent leaks, and third-party access to personal data? 

In this week’s NLJ, Fergus McCombie of 36 Commercial, surveys the parameters of caselaw concerning data protection.

McCombie explores the limits from the Supreme Court’s ruling last year that no damages are payable for mere loss of control to a claimant who alleges data protection breaches of child users and account holders by Tik Tok. ‘In the meantime,’ he writes, ‘the courts have been doing their best to put nuisance claims firmly in their procedural place’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
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James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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