Cases

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Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

Data Protection Act 1998  – Misuse of private information – Breach of confidence – Vicarious Liability

[2018] EWCA Civ 2239 - Court of Appeal

Judge The Master of the Rolls, Bean, Flaux LJJ

Various Claimants v WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC

In a trial of liability for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, misuse of private information and breach of confidence: where a then employee of the D had made a copy of the Cs’ private/confidential information held on D’s payroll and uploaded it to the internet, was D liable either on a direct or vicarious liability basis? Data Protection Act 1998  – Misuse of private information – Breach of confidence – Vicarious liability – DPP7

[2017] EWHC3113 (QB); [2018] IRLR 200; [2018] EMLR 12 - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Judge Langstaff J