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Government Investigations in Singapore 2025
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
United Kingdom | Publication | March 2024
In Farley (formerly CR) and others v Paymaster (1836) Ltd [2024], the High Court partially dismissed a claim for misuse of private information and breach of the data protection law when annual pension benefit statements containing personal details of about 450 current and former police officers were sent in error to out-of-date addresses by the defendant administrator.
Nicklin J dismissed the claims in relation to those claimants who had not adduced evidence that their statement and been opened and read by someone other than the claimant, holding that they should be struck out or summarily dismissed as disclosing no reasonable grounds for bringing the claim. He allowed the remaining 14 claims to proceed.
The judge decided:
Just 14 out of over 450 claims will proceed to trial. The question of whether the 14 claimants could surmount a threshold of seriousness (were one found to apply in data protection claims) was factual and could only fairly be resolved at trial. In addition, so long as the administrator defendant continued to dispute liability on the basis that it was a data processor rather than a data controller, there remained a common issue between the 14 claims that needed to be resolved.
This is an interesting case for employers and they should note the outcome of the future court judgment in respect of the 14 claimants whose cases are being pursued.
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We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
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The private credit market and direct lending have grown and diversified immensely in the past decade, offering alternative sources and terms of debt compared to those historically provided by the syndicated leveraged loan and public issuance markets. Consequently, they are fast becoming pivotal components in the capital ecosystem, so much so that the Bank of England consider that the private credit market is currently responsible for approximately $1.8 trillion of debt issuance, which is four times its size in 2015. This growth has been particularly pronounced in Europe and the US but there has also been significant activity in Asia.
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The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation, commonly referred to as the AI Act, is expected to come into force during the summer of 2024 (the AI Act). The AI Act will be the first comprehensive legal framework for the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI), and is intended to ensure that AI systems developed and used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and environmentally friendly.
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