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UK Court of Appeal Establishes Data Protection Rights in Privacy Case

By Jane Berry (UK), Ffion Flockhart (UK) and Marcus Evans (UK) on April 9, 2015 Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose Fulbright

A recent English Court of Appeal judgment could significantly broaden the circumstances in which data protection litigation can be brought – and damages can be awarded – under English law. Background Vidal-Hall et al v Google ([2015] EWCA Civ 311) involves claims brought by three individual users against Google. The users alleged that Google collected private … Continue reading

Ontario Court of Appeal finds patients’ common law privacy rights not preempted by statute; allows class action to proceed

By Christine Carron (CA) on February 25, 2015 Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation, General

In a recent case involving a breach of patients’ privacy rights — Hopkins v Kay,[i] — the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that a proposed class action could proceed based on allegations of violation of patients’ common law privacy rights, concluding that those rights were not preempted by the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). … Continue reading