The French Constitutional Court (Conseil Constitutionnel) issued its decision n°2015-713 DC on the recently adopted Law on intelligence on 23 July 2015. Reading its decision after having read the Davis judgment of the English High Court, one wonders whether legal syllogism has suddenly been replaced by useless tautology. Read the rest of this entry »
What if the French constitutional judges had read the Davis Judgement? Would we be living in a better world? – Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
29 07 2015Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Digital Rights Ireland, DRIPA, Peep Beep!, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
Categories : Data Protection, EU, France
The Davis judgement: does Article 8 of the European Charter go beyond Article 8 of the ECHR? – Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
25 07 2015
The latest episode of the UK saga “and what do we do with data retention laws” has been issued by the English High Court, with its judgement in the case David Davis and Ors v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2092 (Admin). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Article 8, DRIPA, EU Charter, Peep Beep!, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
Categories : Data Protection, EU
Case Law, R (Davis) v Home Secretary, Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act overturned – Lorna Woods
19 07 2015
In a very rare outcome, in the case of R (Davis and ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department ([2015] EWHC 2092 (Admin) the Divisional Court declared that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA) is inconsistent with European Union law and therefore is “disapplied”, although the Court suspended the effect of its order until after 31 March 2016. Permission to appeal was granted. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Digital Environment, DRIPA, Lorna Woods, LSE Media Police Project
Categories : Caselaw, EU, Government and Policy
