Irwin Mitchell

Commercial Law

Partner

Joanne advises organisations across all sectors on data protection and privacy.

She advises on data protection compliance programs (including drafting suites of policies and procedures, privacy notices and other documentation) for a broad range of clients, including national retailers, multi-national manufacturers, schools and colleges, sports clubs and property developers.

She also advises on:

The compliant export of personal data and the impact of Schrems II and Brexit; Data sharing and processor contracts; How to carry out legitimate interest and data protection impact assessments; How to market under GDPR including how to draft and obtain compliant consents.

In addition, she advises on how to deal with the more contentious data protection issues such as complaints to the ICO and the notification of data breaches and provides swift, pragmatic and knowledgeable advice to help clients through what can be a challenging process.

She also advises on complex data subject access requests and those made in the context of complaints.

Licensing Executives Society; Society for Computers and Law.

University of Cambridge (BA Hons 2(1)); College of Law, Chester (Law Society Finals with commendation).