Following the announcement on 22 May 2024 of the snap General Election to take place on 04 July 2024, Parliament has been prorogued with effect from 24 May 2024 (meaning Parliamentary business is suspended thereafter) and will be dissolved with effect from 30 May 2024. The brief period between the announcement of the election and prorogation is known as wash up, when political parties must negotiate to pass outstanding Bills, or parts of them, or Bills fall. Prorogation also bring an end to the work of the various Parliamentary Committees. Handley Gill’s consultants consider which Bills have been washed up and which have fallen in the context of cyber security, data protection, online safety, artificial intelligence (AI), digital markets, content regulation, reputation management, open justice, access to information, human rights and ESG, as well as the work of Parliamentary Committees which were either rushed out or dropped.

Nicola Cain5 June 2024General Election 2024, GE2024, Data Protection, Personal Data, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Media Bill, Media Act 2024, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Bill, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Act 2024, Human Rights, Duty of Candour, Joint Committee on Human Rights, Education Committee, Commons Education Committee, Screentime impact on education & wellbeing, Science Innovation & Technology Committee, House of Commons Science Innovation & Technology Committee, Artificial Intelligence, AI, AI Governance, Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, SLAPPs, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill, Criminal Justice Bill, European Affairs Committee, UK-EU Data Adequacy, Adequacy Decision, Cyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Resilience, Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI), Commons Women & Equalities Committee, Non-consensual intimate image abuse, Revenge porn, Online Safety, Online Harms, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Competition and Markets Authority, CMA, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, Data Protection Reform, UK GDPR, Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, Article 17 UK GDPR, Article 17 GDPR, Right to Erasure, Right to be ForgottenComment

King's Speech 2023

Handley Gill’s consultants highlight and consider the content of the King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament 2023, and the implications for those with an interest in data protection, privacy, freedom of expression, online safety, cyber security, broadcasting and VOD regulation, digital markets regulation and/or artificial intelligence.

Nicola Cain7 November 2023King's Speech, King's Speech 2023, Kings Speech, Kings Speech 2023, Data Protection, Personal Data, State Opening of Parliament, 2023-24 Parliamentary Session, Data Protection Reform, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information (No.2) Bill, DPDI Bill, DPDI (No.2) Bill, DPDI2 Bill, DPDI(2) Bill, General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, UK GDPR, King Charles III, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, Brexit, PECR, Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Bill, Digital Markets Regulation, Draft Media Bill, DCMS Committee, Commons Culture Media & Sport Committee, Broadcasting, Public Service Broadcasting, PSBs, Broadcasting Regulation, Ofcom, Video on Demand, Video Streaming Sites, VOD, s.40 Crime and Courts Act 2013, Section 40 Crime and Courts Act 2013, Listed Events, Bill of Rights, Confidential Source, Injunction, Injunctive Relief, SLAPPs, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Criminal Justice Bill, Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill, Online Safety Act 2023, Encryption, Technology, Technology Regulation, TECH REGULATION, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, CPTPP, Artificial Intelligence, AIComment

Balancing act… falls off a cliff

Handley Gill Limited’s consultants consider the implications of the withdrawal of the Bill of Rights for freedom of speech, the protection of confidential journalistic sources and defamation, data protection, and misuse of private information claims against the media.

Nicola Cain2 July 2023Bill of Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, Human Rights, s12 Human Rights Act 1998, Conservative Party manifesto, Human rights reform, Freedom of Speech, Free speech, Freedom of Expression, Article 10 ECHR, Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights, Confidential Source, Source Protection, Journalistic Source, Protection of journalistic sources, Clause 4(1) Bill of Rights, Clause 21 Bill of Rights, Clause 22 Bill of Rights, Injunction, Injunctive Relief, Prior restraint, s10 Contempt of Court Act 1981, Section 12 Human Rights Act 1998, Section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981, Draft Media Bill, Bill 117 2022/23, s.40 Crime and Courts Act 2013, Section 40 Crime and Courts Act 2013, SLAPP, SLAPPs, Anti-SLAPP, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, Chilling effect, Press Regulation, IMPRESS, Press Recognition Panel, Reputation Management, Media Law, Defamation, Libel, Slander, Privacy, Misuse of Private Information, Data ProtectionComment

Slapp down

Additional protections to be granted to defendants to protect free speech in defamation, data protection and misuse of private information claims concerning economic crime from SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) in government amendment to Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

Nicola Cain13 June 2023SLAPPs, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Defamation, Libel, Slander, Data Protection, Data Litigation, Freedom of Expression, Right to Freedom of Expression, Right to freedom of expression and information, Misuse of Private Information, Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10 ECHR, Article 8 ECHR, Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights, Article 7 European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms, Article 8 European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, Special Purposes Exemption, Special Purposes Processing, Journalism Exemption, Journalism, Journalism Art or Literature, Economic crime, Civil Procedure Rules, Costs budgeting, Freedom of Speech, Free speech, Combatting economic crime, Combating economic crime, Harassment, Litigation, Privacy, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, SLAPP, ANTI-SLAPP, AntiSlapp, Reputation ManagementComment