https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2023/1668.html Summary: This case regards a claim in the High Court for the misuse of private information and breach of rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), both of which succeeded and led to an award of £6000 in damages. Mr Yao Bekoe, the claimant, lived in the London Borough of Islington (“LBI”) and […]
Bekoe v Islington [2023] EWHC 1668 Read More »
It depends who is the manager and what is meant by a managed account. A commissioned budget spent on services contracted to the council, is the council’s business, not the client’s. A budget which has been converted into a direct payment in the person’s own name will be held in a bank account in their
Keywords: Confidentiality, Liability for non-disclosure ABC’s father had shot and killed her mother in 2007 and was sentenced under the Mental Health Act to a Hospital Order with Restrictions. He was diagnosed in 2009 with Huntington’s Disease (a progressive and fatal condition of the central nervous system) which causes mental, emotional, physical and behavioural deterioration.
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The claimant parent (A) applied for judicial review of a 2004 Department of Health document entitled “Best Practice for Doctors and Other Health Professionals on the Provision of Advice and Treatment to Young People Under 16 on Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health”. A’s application was concerned with the situation where a person under the age
The claimant was a 14 year old girl at the time of this application for judicial review. She was the main prosecution witness in the trial of a man, W, charged in the Crown Court Stafford, with sexual offences against her. He was eventually convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a child contrary
This case relates to the claimant, Michael Stone (S), convicted of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, and of the attempted murder of Josie Russell. Following his conviction an independent Inquiry was undertaken and completed 3 years after his conviction. S co-operated with the Inquiry by giving it full access to his medical, probation
CC was a young adult who lacked capacity. She was adopted as a young child and for many years her birth mother had indirect ‘letter box’ contact with her. A few years ago this indirect contact had stopped and RC made an application to the Court of Protection to have the indirect contact reinstated. In
A Chief Constable was under a duty to disclose information to a prospective employer in an enhanced criminal record certificate if the information might be relevant, unless there was good reason for not making the disclosure.(s.115 Police Act 1997) The Court of Appeal overruled the decision of the Administrative Court’s (QBD) in January 2004, which
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The Claimant (‘W’) challenged the decision by the Chief Constable to disclose to W’s employer a spent conviction of a sexual assault against a young boy which had taken place in 1987 and the fact that W had again been arrested in 2001, though no prosecution had resulted, after his stepson had alleged that he
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