ABSTRACT
Following a data subject access request made in 2014, the Court of Appeal has recently taken the opportunity to consider the nature of joint privilege. By affirming that joint privilege is a procedural issue, rather than a substantive element of trust law, the court removed it from the remit of offshore restrictions upon trustee disclosure duties. However, the Data Protection Act 2018 may yet frustrate future attempts by beneficiaries to use subject access requests to pursue fishing expeditions.
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Charles Towl, Gone fishing: legal professional privilege and data subject access requests in trust law – Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2020] EWCA Civ 352, Trusts and Trustees, https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttaa073. Published: 14 October 2020.
First posted 2020-10-19 10:13:09
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