Covert Recording of Consultations

This is a topic that I occasionally gets asked about. In the case here the judge was asked specifically to comment on the admissibility of a covert recording by a patient as evidence. He makes the following observation: “I reject the proposition that the recordings were a breach of the Data Protection Act or the GPDR. Article 2(c) of the GPDR provides that the Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data “by a natural person in the course of a purely personal activity”.