Case Law & Court Rules

Topic: Independency of National Data Protection Authorities   Relevant Law: EU Directive 95/46/EC Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 The full text of the judgments is available at: http://curia.europa… Open Pdf

European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) held that Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC requires national supervisory authorities for the protection of personal data to operate with complete independence in the exercise of their duties. Hungary failed to fulfill such obligations by prematurely ending the term served by its national supervisory authority. Mr. András Jóri had been appointed […]

On February 3, 2014 the Italian Court of Cassazione deposited the full text of the decision with which on December 17, 2013 it acquitted Google managers of the crime of unauthorized data processing (it was a case of cyber-bullyism).  The Court held that managers of an Internet hosting provider are not criminally responsible because the […]

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(Italian Official Gazette no. 266, November 13, 2013) The Italian Data Protection Authority issued detailed rules for the processing of personal data by call centers located outside the EU, which operate on behalf of Italian data controllers to provide customer care or for marketing purposes. According to Directive 95/46/EC the transfer of personal data to […]

The court held that the attorney-client privilege does not protect emails between a company and its unlicensed foreign senior in-house lawyer.   From the Opinion: “If the Plaintiffs are correct that Dutch law applies, the Boonstra communications plainly are not privileged. Although Dutch law affords a ‘legal professional privilege’ to licensed in-house counsel, there is no recognized […]

Consiglio Nazionale Forense, sentenza del 6 giugno 2013, n. 89 Topics: Unethical advertisement, services offered at a symbolic price, accaparramento di clientela (“ambulance chasing”) Consiglio Nazionale Forense* (Italian National Bar Council) held that it is unethical for lawyers to advertise in the internet that their services are offered for free, at a symbolic price, or […]

February 20, 2013 (published May 7, 2013)   Topic: Attorney advertisement Digest of the Committee: “Il Consiglio territoriale ha congruamente evidenziato come il titolo e l’oggetto della pubblicazione incriminata, il titolo dell’articolo e la forma dell’intervista non consentivano al lettore di percepire con immediatezza di trovarsi al cospetto di una informazione pubblicitaria; laddove, invece, il […]

December 15, 2012 (published March 15, 2013)   Topic: Attorney advertisement Holding: “I principi in tema di pubblicità di cui alla legge 248/2006 (c.d. Decreto Bersani), pur consentendo al professionista di fornire specifiche informazioni sull’attività e i servizi professionali offerti, non legittimano tuttavia una pubblicità indiscriminata avulsa dai dettami deontologici, giacché la peculiarità e la specificità […]