Legal Futures reports the U.K. Court of Appeal overturned a High Court ruling that put limitations around plaintiffs’ rights to raise collective-action claims over data breaches. Lord Justice Mark Worby indicated the reversal stemmed from the High Court’s unnecessary application of a “threshold of seriousness” that needed to be met for breach claims to proceed. KP Law Partner Kingsley Hayes, who represented the plaintiffs, said the Court of Appeal decision “makes clear that unlawful processing alone is enough to found a claim.”
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