Session details
20th Annual IBA Transnational Crime Conference
17 May - 19 May 2017
Session information
Data privacy: challenges in internal cross-board investigations and criminal defence work
Thursday 18 May (0930 - 1100)
Committee(s)
Criminal Law Committee
(Lead)
Criminal Law Section
(Lead)
European Regional Forum
(Lead)
Description
This session will look at: • The impact on criminal defence work and on cross-border investigations of European Regulation 679/2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, also in the light of the EU Court of Justice’s jurisprudence (especially the decisions on ‘data retention’) • The relation between data privacy, criminal defence work and banking secrecy, with particular regard to a bank’s position in respect of clients’ security and judicial authority’s requests • Criminal law implications in cross-border investigations with regard to the processing and circulating of personal data • Limits on and problematic issues in data collection for criminal lawyers: processing of personal data and its use in criminal proceedings • Analysis of actual case-law
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Filippo Ferri | Cagnola & Associati Studio Legale, Milan, Italy; Publications Officer, Business Crime Committee |
| Janusz Tomczak | Raczkowski, Warsaw, Poland; Conference Coordinator, Criminal Law Committee |
Speakers
| George Ayoub | Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Felix K H Ng | Haldanes Solicitors & Notaries, Central, Hong Kong SAR; Regional Representative Asia General, Criminal Law Committee |
| Su Mei Ong | Deutsche Bank, London, England |
| Lisa Kate Osofsky | Exiger, London, England |
| Wojciech Wiewiorowski | EDPS, Brussels, Belgium |