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About
Provided by Anya Proops KC
Practice Areas
Practice Areas: privacy, data protection, technology law, media, group litigation, employment law, public law, sports law. Cases include: Various Claimants v Morrison Supermarket Plc (SC – group litigation, employer vicarious liability); Weaver v British Airways (HC - group litigation data breach case), SMO v TikTok (HC – representative action in respect of TikTok’s handling of children’s data); Facebook v Information Commissioner (FTT – challenge to penalty imposed on Facebook in connection with Cambridge Analytica); Various Claimants v the Labour Party/the Labour Party vs Murphy & Ors (HC – case concerning whether the Labour Party and/or certain of its former employees were liable for the leak of a report on the Party’s handling of antisemitism complaints); Experian v Information Commissioner (FTT – legality of marketing data analytics activities); Clearview v Information Commissioner (FTT – territorial application of UK GDPR to facial recognition service) 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 boxer’s drugs test results).
Career
Called: 1998.
Appointed KC: 2016.
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).