When disclosures in court proceedings are wrong: £10,000 settlement

When disclosures in court proceedings are wrong, this could result in private information being misused or exposed. This happened to a client of ours and we were able to recover £10,000 in settlement for their damages claim.

This particular pay-out reflects the significance of the impact on our client owing to the nature of the particularly personal and sensitive information that was disclosed. We represented our client on a No Win, No Fee basis, having risk assessed the matter. We are pleased that we were able to obtain a fantastic settlement to compensate them for what happened.

Issues in respect of disclosures in court proceedings

We have represented a number of claimants in respect of disclosures in court proceedings that should not have taken place. Sometimes, it can be a case that organisations disclose personal and sensitive information about people when it is requested of them by solicitors. However, this does not automatically entitle a solicitor to obtain such information. Further, even if the information has been legally disclosed to a solicitor, this does not mean that such data can then form part of disclosures in court proceedings as well.

Ultimately, information being used in such circumstances must be relevant to the matter, and consent is a key consideration. If consent and appropriateness of information are not properly considered, information could be misused or exposed in a way that could cause distress and harm to the data subject.

Court proceedings themselves, when they relate to family matters, can be quite difficult for all parties involved. For issues to be exacerbated by privacy breaches can simply make matters much worse.

£10,000 settlement for Your Lawyers’ client

Your Lawyers previously recovered £10,000 in settlement of a matter that involved particularly personal and sensitive information forming as part of disclosures in court proceedings. This pay-out reflected the significance of the impact on our client, owing to the nature of the information and how it should not have been involved in the disclosures at all.

Our client instructed our leading team of privacy experts here at Your Lawyers, and we agreed to take the claim forward on a No Win, No Fee basis. We were confident right from the start that we would be able to succeed with the case, based on the information and evidence that had been presented to us. We are pleased that we were able to recover £10,000 in settlement for what happened.

Leading privacy claims experts

Your Lawyers, as a team of Leading Privacy Compensation Claims Experts, have a proven track record that is built on the fact that we have been operating in this niche and complex area of law for almost a decade. This is far longer than many other law firms out there. This means that we represent thousands of clients and have already recovered over £1m in damages for mostly individual clients to date.

We have also launched over 60 group and multi-party actions in respect of privacy matters. This includes infamous events such as the 56 Dean Street Clinic Leak of 2015, the British Airways cyberattacks of 2018, and the Virgin Media data leak of 2020.

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