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23 March 2022
Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber
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NLJ this week: Data leaks―what are the limits to litigation?

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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’.

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NEWS

Family set expands with the formal integration of 4 Brick Court into 42BR Barristers

The Court of Appeal has issued a stern warning to lawyers engaging in the practice of ‘privilege hunting’—obtaining an opponent’s legally privileged information through dishonest means
Legal executives have given a lukewarm reception to the Legal Services Board’s (LSB’s) final report from its regulatory review into Mazur advice and guidance
A homeless single parent offered accommodation in Derby has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the London council making the offer
The Kingdom of Bahrain does not enjoy sovereign immunity from allegations it used surveillance software to spy on dissidents in the UK, the Supreme Court has held
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