How we use your personal data » Sharing Your Data » Personal Injury and Medical Negligence Team
Please read the information below for details of how our team will use your personal data and who we will or may share it with. This information should be read together with that provided in the Privacy Notice and details about how and why this firm processes your personal data, and who Taylor Emmet will share your data with.
| How our department uses your personal data |
Who we will/may share your personal data with |
| We use your personal data primarily to provide the legal services that you have asked us to deliver, to progress your matter generally and for related purposes as detailed below (lawful bases for processing: contractual obligation and legitimate interests): |
- HM Courts and Tribunal Service (disputed cases where proceedings are issued)
- The other party’s solicitor, insurer, claims manager or other organisation or person appointed to deal with your claim by the opponent
- The other party in person
- The Motor Insurers’ Bureau
- The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
- Barristers and their clerks
- Enquiry Agents as required
- Costs draftsmen and/or Costs Lawyers
- Solicitors we appoint to represent you as agents in Courts in our place
- Interpreters (as required)
- Your Litigation Friend (as applicable)
- Medical experts, instructed on your behalf and by the other side
- Medical and pagination agencies who we instruct to obtain and process your medical records and/or to obtain medical reports
- Personal Injury claims in which we are required to provide personal data to the other side through the MOJ Online Portal
- Forensic Accountants (as required, to establish loss of income/earnings)
- Other expert witnesses who may be instructed such as Accident Reconstruction Experts, Engineers, Employment Consultants, Ergonomists and others. These Experts may be appointed jointly by us with your opponents or by us or your opponents alone
- Benefits Agency
- HM Revenue and Customs from whom we may request details of your employment and earnings.
- The Department for Work and Pensions
- Health professionals
- Your GP surgery
- Hospitals where you have been treated
- Witnesses
- Police (if involved in proceedings against the Defendant and/or if an accident report is prepared)
- Health & Safety Executive (as appropriate)
- Employers and former employers
- Your academic institution (for example, University)
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| In relation to costs funding, to enable us to provide legal services to you, information may/will be supplied at the outset to demonstrate the merits of your claim and justify funding, and throughout your case so as to ensure continuation of funding and fulfil our and/or your contractual obligation to insurers to keep them apprised of the progress of your claim, developments as they arise and details of the costs incurred on your behalf (lawful basis for processing: contractual and legitimate interests)
Please note that if this information is not provided the funder is likely to withdraw funding
The information shared will/may include sensitive personal data such as reference to medical reports obtained in Counsel’s opinions received). The condition for processing this special category data is that it is necessary to establish or exercise your legal claim/position/defence |
- After-the-Event Insurance providers (ATE providers) with whom we will share information to secure cover for you and keep informed of progress and developments in your case. The ATE providers currently used by the teams are: Financial & Legal; DAS; Keystone; LAMP; ARAG; Burford; and Allianz but will also include such other ATE providers as may be used from time to time
- Litigation funders such as Legal Expenses Insurers or Trade Unions who require, as a term of the funding, that we keep them informed of progress and developments in your case
- Legal Aid Agency (Clinical Negligence cases only)
Please note that you are also likely to be under a contractual obligation to keep your insurers/litigation funder informed of developments/progress of your matter |
| If you have been introduced to us through our marketing arrangements with First4 Lawyers we will provide them with stage updates, so that they can monitor our efficiency in processing your instructions and maintaining quality standards. Very limited information is provided regarding the stage which your claim has reached. No sensitive information e.g. health records, medical reports, Barrister’s advice or other documents in your case will be shared (the legal reason for processing: legitimate interests – we want to demonstrate the high standards to which we operate so that this national claims management company will continue to work with us) |
- Claims Management Companies including First4 Lawyers and such other Claims Management Companies as may be used from time to time
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