Ittihadieh v 5-11 Cheyne Gardens RTM Company; Deer v University of Oxford [2017] EWCA Civ 121

Disclosure: Uncovering trustees‘ reasons

The Court of Appeal has provided beneficiaries with an alternative avenue for seeking disclosure against a trustee. Sophie Holcombe explains ‘The Court of Appeal expressly stated that it would not be correct to refuse to exercise the court‘s discretion to order compliance “because this disclosure could not be obtained from the trustees under the governing …

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Data Protection: No access

Faranak Ghajavand continues her litigator’s guide to subject access requests ‘The Data Protection Act recognises that there are circumstances where data controllers have legitimate reasons for not complying with a subject access request and provides a number of exemptions from the obligation to do so.’ Part 1: ‘Change the subject’, CLJ73 In this second instalment, …

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Disclosure: Blind data

Gwendoline Davies guides the way through the obligations of data protection and disclosure ‘Whenever a data controller wishes to rely on the disproportionality or the privilege exemption, it should be prepared to justify that decision, with evidence in support.’ The extent of a data controller’s obligations to respond to data subject access requests (DSARs), and …

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