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Robin Hopkins
Position
Highly experienced data protection and information rights specialist (GDPR, privacy, FOI, EIR). Regularly acts for commercial clients, the ICO, individuals and public authorities on GDPR enforcement/fines, regulatory and civil litigation, compliance and advisory matters. Recent/current cases involve e.g. Meta, TikTok, Equifax, Experian, online gaming platforms and the UK Government’s asylum partnership with Rwanda. Experienced in large-scale data protection compensation claims, data breach management, subject access disputes, right to be forgotten cases and regulatory challenges to business practices. Appeared in leading data protection cases – including intervening in Lloyd v Google and acting in key subject access cases (eg Ittihadieh, DB v GMC, Harrison v Cameron) – as well as in hundreds of FOI cases, including leading Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases. Edits the Panopticon blog.
Career
Called 2008; Lincoln’s Inn. Member of Attorney General’s A Panel. Commissary General (Chancellor), Diocese of Canterbury.
Memberships
Ecclesiastical Law Society.
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 > Group litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Robin Hopkins – 11KBW ‘Pragmatic advice, efficient, quick thinker.’
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Robin Hopkins – 11KBW ‘Robin is one of the strongest senior juniors in the market for data protection and technology work. He is extremely knowledgeable in his area, smart and highly articulate – both in written and oral advocacy. On top of that, he is very user-friendly and responsive.’
‘One of the top data sets in the country’, 11KBW’s ‘leading lights feature in all the prominent data protection cases and the set is at the cutting edge in this field.’ Anya Proops KC, leading Robin Hopkins, represented The Police Federation in connection with a major data breach said to have affected 130,000 of its serving officer members, having already successfully resisted an attempt by the claimants to have the court make a group litigation order. Timothy Pitt-Payne KC led Stephen Kosmin representing the claimant in Prismall v Google UK, a representative action concerning the use of medical data from the Royal Free Hospital to develop an app to detect acute kidney injury due to be heard by the Court of Appeal. In Farley & Ors v Equiniti, a multi-million pound data breach and misuse of private information claim against the police pension administrator, Andrew Sharland KC and Hannah Ready represented the defendant and successfully convinced the judge to strike out 97% of the 446 claims.