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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’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

NEWS

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Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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