Clashes between the need for secrecy in dealing with potential criminality and the obligations of transparency under data protection legislation are common. A recent UK decision (Lonsdale –vNational Westminister Bank Plc) highlights one such clash. In particular, it considered what happens when a DSAR (a Data Subject Access Request) is made seeking disclosure of SARs […]

Organisations storing personal information, should be prepared to process a large number of data access requests when GDPR goes into effect. While many of the headlines about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) focus on the large fines that organisations could face in the event of security breaches, another big concern are so called data […]

Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2017] EWCA Civ 74 A recent decision of the Court of Appeal in the UK suggests that beneficiaries seeking trust information may be able to get around trust law restrictions by filing a data subject access request under data protection legislation. The case of Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2017] […]