Data Protection: “violent markers and libel: everyone a winner except the taxpayer”
One of the things I like about our Update sessions is that you get to know what you missed. And so it was with the case of Jane Clift v Slough Borough Council (Neutral Citation Number: [2009] EWHC 1550 (QB)) – a judgment delivered in June 2009 – which deals with the “violent warning marker”. What happened was essentially this. Ms Clift reported to a council official (Ms R) an incidence of anti social behaviour that upset her. That telephone




