Category: Data breach

Update: WM Morrisons Supermarket plc (Appellants) v Various Claimants (Respondents)

18 November, 2019

Case ID: UKSC 2018/0213 Hearing Date 6 and 7 November 2019 Justices: Lady Hale, Lord Reed, Lord Kerr, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones Facts (taken from Supreme Court Case Summary) In November 2013, an employee of the appellant, Mr Skelton, downloaded payroll data he was entrusted with at work onto a personal USB stick and took … Read more

Game changer for cyber/data breach cases opens in Supreme Court: WM Morrisons Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants

06 November, 2019

The Supreme Court in England has two issues to consider in the appeal which opens today. First, should the company be held to be vicariously liable for the acts of its employee in this case? It concerns, after all, a rogue employee, who took payroll data with which he was entrusted home on a … Read more

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