Businesses that store their clients’ personal data are under a strict legal duty to keep it secure. Any failure to do so is likely to have serious financial and reputational consequences. An estate agency whose negligence and technical inexperience left the details of more than 18,000 tenants exposed to hackers faced repercussions when they were fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Continue reading →

Once planning permissions have been granted and lawfully implemented, they are capable of enduring indefinitely, in principle. However, in a highly unusual case, the High Court ruled that a permission issued in 1967 could not be relied upon by a developer who wished to build a substantial housing estate in the Snowdonia National Park. Continue reading →