ICO Fines Company £150k Following Theft of Portable Hard Drive

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has recently imposed a fine of £150,000 against a company after a portable hard drive containing personal information of 59,592 customers was stolen by a member of staff who was permitted access to the company’s server room. The portable hard drive contained customer names, addresses, bank account, sort code numbers […]

Alex CanhamPartner, Herrington Carmichael LLP

Non-Contractual Disclaimers

Contractual disclaimers are not always treated favourably by UK law, with their validity limited by the law on unfair contract terms. However, a recent ruling has clarified that a non-contractual disclaimer excluding liability for negligent misstatements in documents online could be relied upon by a bank1. The disclaimer in question was on the defendant bank’s […]

Alex CanhamPartner, Herrington Carmichael LLP

Non-Contractual Disclaimers

Contractual disclaimers are not always treated favourably by UK law, with their validity limited by the law on unfair contract terms. However, a recent ruling has clarified that a non-contractual disclaimer excluding liability for negligent misstatements in documents online could be relied upon by a bank1. The disclaimer in question was on the defendant bank’s […]

Scotland, Brexit and the Sewel Convention

Mark McKeown Legislative Consent Motions, also known as “Sewel Motions”, are motions passed by the devolved legislatures (the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly) which permit the UK Parliament to legislate on a matter over which that devolved legislature normally has legislative authority. Legislative Consent Motions were created when the UK […]