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UK Bar Guide 2023

Ranked in 4 Practice Areas
Data Protection
11 Years Ranked
1
Group Litigation
2 Years Ranked
2
Defamation/Privacy
2 Years Ranked
4
Employment
13 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Anya Proops KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

privacy, data protection, media, group litigation, employment law, public law, sports law. Cases include: Weaver v British Airways (HC - group litigation data breach case), Atkins v Equifax Information Services (HC – representative action data breach case); Various Claimants v Morrisons (SC – vicarious liability for employee data breach); Facebook v Information Commissioner (FTT – challenge to penalty imposed on Facebook in connection with Cambridge Analytica); Experian v Information Commissioner (FTT – legality of data broking activities); Vidal-Hall v Google (CA– legality of tracking of internet browsing habits); NT1 v Google (HC - first UK right to be forgotten case); Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing (CA - application of subject access regime); Magyar Jeti v Hungary (ECtHR – whether media organisations strictly liable for hyperlinking to unlawful third party content); Zverev v Ace (HC – sports restraint of trade case) Whyte v CBS (HC – legality of publication of drugs test results).

Career

Called in 1998. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 2016.

Professional Memberships

ELA, ELBA.

Publications

Co-founder of the information law blog Panopticonblog.com. Contributor to Tolley's 'Employment Handbook'. Contributor to ‘International Employment Disputes’.

Personal

Cambridge (BA); London School of Economics (PhD); City University (CPE).

Chambers Review

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Data Protection - London (Bar)
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Anya Proops KC
Anya Proops KC takes a leading role in many of the most prominent cases in the data protection field. She tackles critical disputes in relation to subjects including data breaches, subject access disclosure and the right to be forgotten. Her clients comprise a broad range of internationally active data controller entities.


Group Litigation - All Circuits
1
Band 1

Anya Proops KC
Anya Proops KC is a leading silk in the group action space. She has acted in numerous important cases clarifying the law on both group litigation orders and representative actions, typically concerning data privacy. Proops defends tech giants or other major data controllers in such matters.


Defamation/Privacy - All Circuits
2
Band 2

Anya Proops KC
Anya Proops KC has an impressive depth of expertise in data protection, media and information law. She is widely viewed as spearheading the move towards the use of the Data Protection Act in the protection of reputation.


Employment - London (Bar)
4
Band 4

Anya Proops KC
Anya Proops KC is a well-known silk who can boast wide experience across the spectrum of employment law. She is commended for her expertise in whistle-blowing and discrimination claims, as well as in applications for injunctions, and matters crossing over with data and information law.

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