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Robin Hopkins
Position
Specialist in data protection, privacy, FOI and environmental information. Huge experience, often for major global companies, in data breaches, compensation actions, ICO penalties and enforcement, subject access, GDPR-compliant business models, etc. Has appeared in leading data protection and privacy cases, eg Facebook v ICO (monetary penalty); DB v GMC (mixed personal data); Ittihadieh (subject access); Edem (definition of personal data). Has also appeared in hundreds of FOI and EIR appeals, eg IPSA (MPs’ expenses); APPGER (security services, international relations) and Henney (definition of environmental information). Edits the Panopticon blog.
Career
Called 2008; Lincoln’s Inn. Member of Attorney General’s B Panel. Commissary General (Chancellor), Diocese of Canterbury.
Education
South African College School; University of Cape Town (2000 BA Business Science); Rhodes Scholar; Oxford University (2003 BA in PPE; 2004 MA philosophical theology); City University (2007 GDL), Inns of Court School of Law (2008 BVC).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Robin Hopkins – 11KBW
‘Robin is an outstanding barrister in the data protection arena. He is very sharp, realistic in his approach and incredibly easy to work with.’
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 Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3With 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.