Timothy Pitt-Payne KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
Star Individuals : Data Protection
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About
Provided by Timothy Pitt-Payne KC
Practice Areas
Principal areas of practice are data protection and privacy, freedom of information, other information law areas, employment law, local government, and administrative and public law. Has acted in over 50 cases before Information Rights Tribunal, and in numerous information law cases at all appellate levels from Upper Tribunal to Supreme Court. Contributor to 'Supperstone, Goudie & Walker on Judicial Review' (LexisNexis 2017, and earlier editions); 'Computer Law' (OUP 2011); 'Media Law' (OUP 2009). Visiting Professor of Information Law at Northumbria University 2007-2013.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1989. Joined present chambers in 1990. Appointed KC 2010.
Professional Memberships
Employment Law Bar Association; Employment Law Association; Administrative Law Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; Society for Computers and Law.
Personal
University education: Worcester College, Oxford 1982-86 (BA (Hons) Jurisprudence 1985, BCL 1986). Vinerian Scholar 1986.