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Joint Data Controllers under the UK GDPR
| Purpose: | To advise the profession in relation to being a joint data controller with solicitors' firms |
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| Scope of application: | All practising barristers and chambers |
| Issued by: | The Information Technology Panel |
| First reviewed: | 21/05/2018 |
| Last reviewed: | 01/10/2022 |
| Status and effect: | Please see the notice at end of this page. This is not "guidance" for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4. |
This document addresses whether barristers and solicitors, who are each data controllers, are to be regarded as joint data controllers to whom UK GDPR Article 26 applies.
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