GDPR Data processing modelLegal and Judicial Case Management – Pre-Litigation and Litigation (Public Authorities)

Litigation managementPublic

Processing of personal data for the management and monitoring of legal disputes, pre-litigation, and litigation, in order to protect and defend the interests of a UK public authority before courts and tribunals.

Purposes (1)

A purpose is the objective pursued by the setting up of your file. It indicates what the processing of personal data will be used for, its purpose. This purpose must be clear and understandable

Case management and follow-up

Legal obligation

Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) to comply with statutory duties to defend the organisation’s interests, combined with exercise of official authority (Art. 6(1)(e)). Criminal conviction data processed under DPA 2018 Sch. 1, Part 2, para. 6.

Data categories (1)

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A natural person can be identified either directly (eg surname and first name) or indirectly (eg phone number, social security number, email or postal address, but also voice or image)

Litigation and pre-litigation monitoring data

Data details

Registration of damaged vehiclesrequired

Decision renderedrequiredsensitive data

Procedural steps and actsrequiredsensitive data

Date of judgmentrequiredsensitive data

Sentencedrequiredsensitive data

Description of factsrequiredsensitive data

Nature of recourserequired

Person Qualityrequired

Professional activityrequired

phone numberrequired

Addressrequired

first and last namerequired

Data conservation rules

Active base:

retained for the full duration of proceedings and until expiry of all appeal rights.

Intermediate archiving:

up to 6 years after final judgment (Limitation Act 1980) for potential claims, enforcement, or audit.

Destruction

Data subject (2)

A data subject is any person whose data is collected, retained or processed by the data processing. e.g. In a recruitement process, any candidate for a position proposed in recruitement management process

Administrative officers
Citizens or administered

Created at:07/08/2023

Updated on:07/15/2025

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GDPR Data processing modelLegal and Judicial Case Management – Pre-Litigation and Litigation (Public Authorities)

Purposes (1)

Data categories (1)

Litigation and pre-litigation monitoring data

Data subject (2)

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