“As a political party looking to craft the laws of our society, Reform UK must respect the rule of law, especially when they have used it to their own benefit.”
Pallas is representing The Good Law Project in its legal challenge against Reform UK for breaching voters’ data rights.
In the run-up to the general election, Nigel Farage’s party refused to tell people what data it had on them and ignored requests to delete that data, which it is required to do by law.
A Letter Before Action, marking the first formal step in legal proceedings against Reform UK , has now gone to Reform UK, pointing out that the party has broken UK data laws.
Good Law Project will bring this claim as a ‘representative action’ under the rarely used provisions of Article 80(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This allows public interest organisations to represent victims of data protection infringements before the courts, provided they have officially nominated the organisation to take action on their behalf.
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