Workplace email monitoring: employers must have clear policies in place

| 26th September 2017
{team=146}Quick Summary:   In this judgment on workplace monitoring, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights overturned an earlier judgment by the European Court of Human Rights. The original judgment potentially lowered…
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Plain sailing out of the Safe Harbor?

| 01st March 2016
Where are we now on transfers of personal data to the US? The repercussions of the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (Schrems) that the EU-US Safe Harbor framework was invalid…
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Minimum energy efficiency standards: a reminder

| 21st January 2016
The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (“MEES”) is due to begin to take effect in less than three years for both commercial and residential property.  The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations…
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Litigation

| 06th December 2015
Litigation, or the need to apply to the court to resolve issues, is necessary in only a small number of cases that cannot be resolved in another way.  Today, litigation is the exception rather than the usual method of resolution.  However…
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