Speaker: Helen Snow, Partner, Cardiff

Dealing with subject access requests can be extremely labour intensive and time-consuming for public sector organisations, particularly where the information encompassed within a request is on a large scale.

Failing to deal adequately with a request will expose a data controller to liability, but providing more information that the requester is entitled to can also result in risk.

In this webinar we will look at what information is within the scope of a subject access request, what are the obligations to provide that information and strategies for dealing with and responding to subject access requests, including utilising extensions of time, the ICO’s regulatory approach during the pandemic and manifestly unfounded and excessive requests.

If you have any questions you would like answered on the webinar, please email Michele Jellings beforehand.

About the speaker:

Helen is a Partner with 15 years’ employment experience covering all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious for private, public and third sector organisations. Helen is a trusted advisor to her clients providing strategic advice on complicated employment issues such as collective consultation and transfers of undertakings. She is also an expert in data protection law advising clients on all aspects of this legislation, particularly those relevant to the employment sphere, such as individuals’ rights and compliance.

Helen regularly advises clients on employment tribunal claims including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing. She also advises on complex issues such as Transfers of Undertakings, Collective Consultations for Redundancies and changing terms and conditions of employment. Helen also has expertise in Information Law, advising clients on Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Environmental Information legislation.