Firm News

What’s been happening in May 2022?

In our regular monthly update, we share the latest news from our firm.

Kingsley Hayes highlighted the pitfalls of automated decision making

In May 2022, Partner and Head of Data Breach, Kingsley Hayes, highlighted the pitfalls of automated decision making and explained the importance of GDPR compliance when relying on algorithms to make decisions.

Kingsley’s article was published in ITNow and can be found here.

News of our Parasol data breach claim was published in Computer Weekly.

In April, we issued a notice of potential claim against Optionis Group Limited in relation to our Parasol Data Breach claim (you can find out more here). And in May, news of our Parasol data breach claim published in Computer Weekly.

You can read what we had to say about the Parasol data breach here.

Ben Rees and Alessio Ianiello examined the British Steel mis-selling scandal

Also this month, Technical Director Ben Rees and Associate Alessio Ianiello analysed the British Steel pensions scandal and the FCA’s proposed redress scheme in Law360.

Ben and Alessio’s article was published on 24 May 2022 and can be found here.

We look forward to bringing you more news from across our business next month.

Connor Taylor

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