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Signing Controller-Processor Agreements with Solicitors’ Firms
| Purpose: | To advise the profession in relation to the signing of controller-processor agreements with solicitors’ firms |
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| Scope of application: | All practising barristers and chambers |
| Issued by: | The Information Technology Panel |
| First reviewed: | 01/04/2018 |
| Last reviewed: | 04/04/2023 |
| Status and effect: | Please see the notice at the end of this document. This is not "guidance" for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4. |
It has come to the Bar Council’s attention that some solicitors’ firms have sought to require individual barristers or chambers to enter into a data processing contract under Article 28 of the GDPR/UK GDPR.
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