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About
Provided by Gerry Facenna KC
Practice Areas
Competition, Commercial Regulation, Data Privacy, Energy, EU, Judicial Review and human rights.
Gerry Facenna is an expert in administrative law; regulatory law (including energy, telecoms, and transport); competition law; civil liberties; consumer rights; data protection; and EU law. His recent work includes: CAT collective proceedings against Google (ad tech / competition law); ICO v. Tiktok (regulatory data protection); O’Carroll v. Meta (data protection rights); collective proceedings against the Police Federation (data protection); R (Bridges) v S. Wales Police (police use of facial recognition); restitution clams against the water and sewerage companies; Hughes v Pension Protection Fund (pensions / discrimination); CMA v Care UK (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts); Lloyd v Google (data protection class actions); Elgizouli (data - international transfers); R (Heathrow Hub Ltd.) v. SoS (third runway – competition); Google v CNIL (right to be forgotten); Liberty v. SSHD (Investigatory Powers Act); Wightman (Art 50 / Brexit); Miller (1) (Art 50 / Brexit); Privacy International (investigatory powers / civil liberties).
Career
Called to the Bar of England & Wales (2001, KC 2016); Scotland (2006) and Ireland (2018). Previously a member of the Attorney-General’s ‘A’ Panel of counsel.
Publications
Contributing author to: Information Rights: Law and Practice (Hart, 2020); Halsbury’s Laws of England: Rights and Freedoms (LexisNexis, 2013); EU Competition Law: Procedures and Remedies (OUP, 2006) and The Law of State Aid in the European Union (OUP, 2004).
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