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Helping children follow their passion for sport can be wonderful. Sports teams have a duty of care to their young players or athletes, though, and a legal duty to deal with their data in the correct manner. Here’s our data protection guide for junior sports teams… What…

A Case Study You’re busy in work and you need to drop someone a line about a non-work matter. It’s fine to do that from your work email account, right? Wrong… In fact, you could find that it’s a very career-limiting thing to do! Take the case we undertook recently of Mrs…

Finding out that the media has confidential information about your organisation from a leak can feel devastating. The fall-out can include significant reputational damage and serious legal problems, as one professional sport governing body has recently discovered.…

As the UK opens up again after the COVID-19 lockdown, many public services will face dealing with substantial backlogs. For the already under pressure employment tribunal system, it’s yet another major problem. The system has been under significant strain since…

Millions of workers are heading back to offices, factories, and shops as Britain slowly emerges from lockdown. Now, companies and organisations are facing a dilemma: should they use body temperature cameras to attempt to screen staff and customers who might have…

Have you tried to deal with whether to disclose a third-party as part of a subject access request response (SAR)? This article explains the complexities that often arise when there are other people mentioned in material that needs to be returned as part of a SAR. …

Great advances have been made in the way elite athlete performance data is collected and analysed. But when using this data there are many legal factors to consider to ensure that the rights of the athlete are protected.  The area of data protection law in sport…

Are you no longer collecting email addresses on your website becuase of GDPR? Let us show you how you can still build your list and stay on the right side of the law!  Are you confused about collecting email addresses on your website? Are you unsure about the rules…

When getting together to discuss a dispute becomes difficult, there are alternatives available. Remote mediation is the answer. It can be done through either the telephone or an online mediation session via a browser based video conference. We are going through…