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About
Provided by Anya Proops KC
Practice Areas
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).