Professional Liability Archives

Category: Professional Liability

Mar

Webinar Recording: Data Protection & Privacy – The Police, Subject Access Requests and a General Update

In their webinar yesterday Sarah Prager and Ian Clarke looked at GDPR, data protection and privacy issues, bringing you right up to date with recent developments in the law relating to data protection ...

Mar

Francesca O’Neill successful in Professional Negligence trial

Professionals’ scope of duty examined at trial: some thoughts Harry v Curtis Law LLP (“CWC”) HHJ Mitchell Since SAAMCO, and latterly MBS v Grant ...

Feb

Privacy in the context of criminal investigations: Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5

On 16 February 2022 the Supreme Court handed down their unanimous judgment in Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5. The Court held that, in general, a person who is under criminal ...

Feb

Another “Failure to Advise” Case: Solicitor’s Negligence Recast?

1CL’s expertise in professional negligence cases is well-known, and in this recent case, a useful exploration of the solicitor’s duty to advise clients as to the merit of their litigation ...

Jan

Tindall and another v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police and another [2022] EWCA Civ 25

Mini-Summary The Court of Appeal have allowed the Chief Constable’s appeal against the Master McCloud’s refusal to strike out the claim against him. The case concerned whether ...

Jan

Court of Appeal Judgment in Tindall v Thames Valley Police

The Court of Appeal have allowed the Chief Constable’s appeal against the Master’s refusal to strike out the claim against him. The case concerned whether police officers who attended a road ...

Nov

Covid Briefing – November 2021

This year’s 1 Chancery Lane Autumn Bumper Briefing takes as its theme – what else? – Covid-19 and its consequences. Some two years after the virus was first identified, and just over eighteen ...

Oct

The de minimis principle in practice. When is a data breach too trivial to found a claim: Rolfe and others v Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP

What amount of damage is necessary before a claim for a data breach or of misuse of private information is actionable? In TLT and others v The Home Office [2016] 2217 (QB), Mitting ...

Sep

Cheri-Ann Vincent & Dr Dean Burnett v Andrew Lucas (t/a AG Lucas Co.)

Francesca O’Neill successful in appeal against a decision of the lower court that the usual rule under CPR r.46.1 should be followed even in circumstances where the opposition to the application was ...

Sep

The proper scope of the Tort of Misuse of Private Information: Positive Acts, Data Security and Costs implications.

Frequently a claim arising out of a potential data breach is accompanied by parallel claims alleging that there has also been a Misuse of Private Information (MPI) or a Breach of Confidence (BOC). ...

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