High Court dismisses claim where DSAR regime abused
The High Court of England and Wales has dismissed a claim against a bank for allegedly failing to provide an adequate response to the Claimant’s data subject access request (DSARs), highlighting the robust approach that the court is willing to take where it suspects the tactical deployment (or abuse) of the DSAR regime.
Individuals and claimant firms are increasingly using DSARs as a means of seeking to obtain information and documentation in support of civil claims and in parallel to or before disclosure obligations under the Civil Procedure Rules bite. Where those requests are repetitive, numerous, and the real purpose is to obtain documents and not data, businesses might reasonably resist civil claims raising similar factual issues.
Source: Data Subject Access Requests – High Court dismisses claim where DSAR regime abused
