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GDPR day arrives

25 May 2018
Issue: 7794 / Categories: Legal News , Data protection
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The much-anticipated day has arrived, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is finally in force, replacing the Data Protection Act 1998. The way organisations can collect, use and store personal data has radically changed. In the fourth part of an NLJ series this week, David White, senior solicitor, and Tom Morrison, partner, Rollits LLP, look at the many changes and challenges that still lie ahead. For, as White and Morrison say, ‘the potential consequences for getting it wrong have been amplified significantly’. See Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Issue: 7794 / Categories: Legal News , Data protection
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Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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