We are pleased to welcome Eoin Brady to the FP Logue team Eoin is a consultant in the firm specialising in environmental and planning law. He previously worked as Senior Planning Lawyer with a leading Irish law firm, as Senior Solicitor with EirGrid the national electricity transmission system operator, and as a State Solicitor with the Chief State Solicitors Office.  He has extensive experience of litigation in each of the Irish superior courts, as well as the superior courts of Victoria, Australia where he previously practiced as a litigation lawyer. Eoin holds a First Class Honours LL ..read more

Thanks to Johnny Ryan from ICCL for making available the video from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice GDPR hearing on 27 April 2021 DPC hearing at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) 27 April 2021 from Johnny Ryan on Vimeo. The post GDPR hearing at Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice appeared first on FP Logue ..read more

All planning time limits that were temporarily suspended due to COVID are now running again as and from 24 May. This means that any judicial reviews against planning decisions need to filed within eight weeks at the latest. Please contact us if you have any questions about the new deadlines Image: Licensed under creative commons (https://www.geograph.ie/photo/5700218) The post Planning Time Limits Restart appeared first on FP Logue ..read more

In a recent decision the Data Protection Commission confirmed that a telephone company had to tell a subscriber whether or not details of his phone usage had been accessed by the police unless it could actually demonstrate that there would be prejudice to a criminal investigation or prosecution. A redacted copy of the decision has been posted on www.datasubject.ie with the permission of the data subject. This is an important decision which opens the door to greater transparency around police access to telecoms subscriber information retained under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 20 ..read more

Aerial view of Kilcooley estate, Co Tipperary The Court of Appeal this morning handed down its judgment in Redmond v Commissioner for Environmental Information [2020] IECA 83 which was an appeal against a decision of the High Court upholding a decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information that details of the sale by Coillte, the State Forestry Company, of a leasehold interest in 402 hectares of land at Kilcooley Abbey Estate in Co Tipperary was not environmental information for the purposes of the Access to Information on the Environment Regulations (the “AIE Regulations”). In rea ..read more

Dear President, Director General I am contacting you to ask you to ensure that the Law Society does all it can to encourage the Courts Service to introduce as a matter of the utmost urgency a system of electronic filing of documents, in particular for issuing new proceedings. This needs to happen as soon as possible since it looks very likely that we are going to go into a state of severe lock-down within weeks if not days. The staff in the High Court Central Office and presumably other court offices are already being put in a compromising position in terms of their own health and that of the ..read more

This week the Irish Circuit Court upheld a decision of the Data Protection Commissioner which found that the Courts Service breached the Data Protection Acts when it inadvertently uploaded a copy of a judgment naming a party whose identity was protected by Court Order. In reaching this conclusion the Court considered the Wirtschaftsakademie and Jehovan todistajat decisions of the CJEU and found that the Courts Service was a data controller. The decision dismissed the idea that the original judge was the sole data controller but left open the possibility that in certain circumstances the judici ..read more

Image: Alessandro Vasaturo/CC BY 2.0 The word “privacy” is fast becoming a global term for laws and issues concerning personal data. There is a growing community of privacy professionals, with privacy certifications, part of an international privacy sector and talking about data privacy. As a result, it is increasingly common to see “privacy” or “data privacy” being used in Europe to refer to data protection. We are also seeing Data Protection Day (28 January) being renamed internationally as Data Privacy Day, even though the date marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 ..read more

Image: Public domain As we look at closing the door on 2019 for a well-earned break I thought it would be good to reflect on some of the highlights of the year. Fred Logue featured in the TG4 documentary, Uchtú, helping broadcaster Evanne Ní Chuilinn access information about her adoption and early life We highlighted issues with widespread police access to personal data and the responsibilities of data controllers when approached by the police Throughout the year we reminded everyone that data protection is not necessarily about privacy. In May we succeeded in ensuring that a social welfare c ..read more

A clip from the TG4 Uchtú documentary where I discuss subject access rights with broadcaster Evanne Ní Chuilinn The post Subject Access Requests appeared first on FP Logue ..read more