Anya Proops KC
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Provided by Anya Proops KC
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
UK Bar
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Anya is super experienced, very knowledgeable and very practical. She's one of the leading barristers in the area."
"She has so much experience and is a fountain of knowledge. She is highly sought after and is a really good advocate too. She's the go-to person if you want the top person on your side."
"Her advocacy style is engaging and forceful, and her cross-examination skills are devastatingly effective."
"Anya is adaptable and incredibly clever. She is very incisive and reaches an understanding of complex disputes faster than anyone I've worked with."
"Anya is someone you can always put in front of a client on the biggest cases."
"Her advocacy style is engaging and forceful and her cross-examination of witnesses is devastatingly effective."
"She is a stellar advocate. I would never want to find Anya on the other side of a dispute."
"Anya is super experienced, very knowledgeable and very practical. She's one of the leading barristers in the area."
"She has so much experience and is a fountain of knowledge. She is highly sought after and is a really good advocate too. She's the go-to person if you want the top person on your side."
"Her advocacy style is engaging and forceful, and her cross-examination skills are devastatingly effective."
"Anya is adaptable and incredibly clever. She is very incisive and reaches an understanding of complex disputes faster than anyone I've worked with."
"Anya is someone you can always put in front of a client on the biggest cases."
"Her advocacy style is engaging and forceful and her cross-examination of witnesses is devastatingly effective."
"She is a stellar advocate. I would never want to find Anya on the other side of a dispute."
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