Claiming for damages and distress

I know that many practices receive requests for damages due to occasional lapses in Data Protection. Often these claims, accompanied by a threatening legal letter, can be for very large amounts and the claimant will make what can seem as excessive statements about the issue.

It was therefore very interesting to read this judgement around a Data Protection claim where the Judge was clear that the threshold for such cases is very high.

To quote the article:

this case…makes it clear that data protection infringement compensation claim cases involving trivial incidents where no real distress has been caused are unlikely to succeed.

Those who brought the claim also had to pay costs and an interim £11,000 was required.