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About
Provided by Robin Hopkins
Practice Areas
Highly experienced data protection and information rights specialist (GDPR, privacy, FOI, EIR). Regularly acts for commercial clients, the ICO and public authorities on GDPR enforcement/fines, regulatory and civil litigation, compliance and advisory matters. Recent/current cases involve e.g. Meta, TikTok, Equifax, Experian and the UK Government’s asylum partnership with Rwanda. Experienced in large-scale data protection compensation claims, data breach management, subject access disputes, right to be forgotten cases and regulatory challenges to business practices. Appeared in leading data protection cases – including intervening in Lloyd v Google – as well as in hundreds of FOI cases, including leading Court of Appeal cases.
Career
Called 2008; Attorney General’s A Panel.
Professional Memberships
Ecclesiastical Law Society; Commissary General, Diocese of Canterbury.
Publications
Co-edits the Panopticon blog.
Personal
Grew up in South Africa; came to UK (Exeter College, Oxford) as Rhodes Scholar; degrees in finance, PPE, theology.