Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 233 (May)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWHC 1471 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London)
Judge:

Gross LJ and Irwin J
Representation Tim Owen QC and Alison MacDonald (instructed by Bhatt Murphy) for the claimant.
  Jeremy Johnson QC (instructed by Directorate of Legal Services, Metropolitan Police) for the Commissioner.
Judgment Dates: 30 May 2012

Catchwords

Data protection - Processing of information - Personal data - Defendants retaining data (reports) relating to claimant's attendance at political protests- Whether collation and retention of reports engaging claimant's human rights- European Convention on Human Rights, art 8.1.

The Case

Data protection Processing of information. The Administrative Court, in dismissing the claimant's application for judicial review, held that the defendants' retention of data relating to the claimant's attendance at various political protests had not engaged art8.1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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