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I am a Solicitor in the Litigation, Advisory and Regulatory Department. I am an Information Law specialist and advise on a wide variety of data protection and privacy matters across the public and private sectors in a variety of contexts, including healthcare, housing, local authority and general commercial work. My work includes matters under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, UK General Data Protection Regulation, and the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality.
My wider experience includes Health and Safety matters, criminal prosecution and defence, and general commercial litigation.
Matters I am involved in include:
- Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulation Requests
- Subject Access Requests
- Data protection aspects of commercial contracts in a number of different sectors
- Data sharing queries in a healthcare context, including patient confidentiality
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FOI Backlogs at the Forefront
09/10/2023
FOI enforcement - a priority for the Information Commissioners Office
Cross-border data flows – EU and UK updates
27/04/2022
A return to Privacy Shield?
20/04/2022
Alastair's areas of expertise
- Housing & Regeneration
- Housing Governance
- Independent Health
- Digital Health
- Infrastructure
- Highways
- Local Government
- City Assets - Making the most of public assets
- Technology
- Regulatory challenges
- Commercial
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Outsourcing & technology disputes
- Litigation & dispute resolution
- Advisory
- Corporate
- Environmental
- Employment advisory support
- Governance
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Regulatory Due Diligence
- ICT
- Information Law
- Freedom of Information Act
- Data Protection
- GDPR
- Healthcare Information Law