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Anya Proops KC
Position
Anya has a broad practice spanning information, media, human rights, public and employment law. She is recommended as a leading practitioner in the legal directories for her work in Data Protection, Defamation & Privacy, and Administrative and Public Law. The nature of Anya’s practice is such that she is equally at home conducting lengthy, witness-heavy hearings as she is arguing complex points of law before the appellate courts. Anya’s clients include individuals; corporations; media organisations; NGOs; statutory regulators and a wide array of public authorities. Anya is named in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100 Lawyers 2019” in recognition of her leading role the field of privacy litigation.
Career
Called 1998; Silk 2016. Inner Temple; editor of ‘Tolley’s Employment Handbook’; editor of Information Law Reports (Info LR); co-creator of Panopticon blog (information law blog).
Memberships
ALBA; ELBA; ELA.
Education
Godolphin & Latymer School; Jesus College, Cambridge (1992 BA Hons Social and Political Science (2(1)); London School of Economics (1996 PhD Political Philosophy); City University (1997 Diploma in Law commendation).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Anya Proops KC –11KBW
‘Anya is able to absorb lots of information at super-human speed and then to produce an analysis and argument covering all the bases.’
Described as the ‘go-to’ set for information law, the barristers at 11KBW are frequently instructed in cases concerning media law, data privacy and European law in the online world for more news outlets and social media companies alike. Anya Proops KC recently acted for TikTok in the significant SMO v TikTok case concerning the way the Chinese-owned social media platform processes the data of British children. In Kirk, Marshall & Newton v Associated Newspapers Limited, David Glen is representing a newspaper regarding its coverage of the alleged and highly-publicised blackmail case between actress Charlotte Kirk and film industry executive Ron Meyer. Further strengthening the practice is Hannah Ready, who represented the claimant Chandler v Bryant, concerning tweets published by Labour MP Chris Bryant republishing allegations of money laundering made under parliamentary privilege – the matter settled with an apology from Bryant.
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Anya Proops KC – 11KBW ‘Anya has that indispensable quality of putting clients immediately at ease, with her calm, authoritative and compassionate approach. Her strategic and tactical judgement is superb.’
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Anya Proops KC – 11KBW ‘The queen of data protection.’
11KBW is a ‘stand-out set‘ for data protection law. The ‘outstanding’ Julian Milford KC is advising the HMRC on a claim involving a challenge to the system for the automatic transfer of tax data between the UK and the USA, on the grounds that the system is incompatible with the GDPR and Data Protection Act 1998. In a separate matter, Anya Proops KC, leading Robin Hopkins, acted on behalf of Experian in Experian v ICO, an appeal against an enforcement notice issued by the ICO regarding the company’s data brokering business. Christopher Knight is ‘a superstar of the data and privacy world‘, and David Glen ‘provides excellent advice that is strategically insightful and delivered in a user-friendly manner‘.
London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Anya Proops KC – 11KBW ‘A phenomenal advocate and a brilliant legal brain. She is devastating in cross-examination and very persuasive on legal points. She is also a first rate team leader who thinks ahead and guides a case through all obstacles. A real star.’
With a particular strong data breach practice, 11KBW’s members comfortably handle large group litigation across a range of fields, such as data protection, employment and product liability. Leading Robin Hopkins , Anya Proops KC is acting for the Police Federation in a case brought by its members in connection with a major data breach said to have affected 130,000 serving police officers. Marcus Pilgerstorfer KC led Hopkins in representing the defendant in Bennett & Ors v Equifax, a case concerning a data breach which is reported to involve the compromise of the personal data of 148m people in the US and 15m people in the UK.