Peter Nowak

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Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon, who ruled that Nama must provide builders Michael and John O’Flynn with personal information it holds on them. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Data ruling may force vulture funds to reveal price they paid for mortgages

A data-protection ruling involving State assets agency Nama could force vulture funds to tell homeowners how much they paid to buy their mortgages, on(...)

The European Court of Justice (above) has ruled a written exam paper amounts to personal data and can be accessed by the candidate. The judgment is the culmination of a process lasting over eight years. File photograph: Getty Images
Failed exam candidate gets right to written paper in ECJ ruling

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a written exam paper amounts to personal data and can be accessed by its author. The judgment is (...)

German Advocate General Juliane Kokott has told the European Court of Justice that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner was wrong to say accountancy trainee Peter Nowak had no right to access the script of a failed exam. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images
Irish student wins support in legal battle over exam script

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is facing another possible defeat at Europe’s highest court in an eight-year legal marathon over an exam (...)

PwC’s offices in Dublin. The Court of Appeal has dismissed a man’s claim he was entitled to a review of the rejection of his complaint about his former accountancy firm employer, PwC.
Court rejects former PwC employee’s claim

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a man’s claim he was entitled to a review of the rejection of his complaint about his former accountancy firm employ(...)

Peter Nowak
Challenging times for Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner

Life is about to get less comfortable for Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC). For the second time in two years, judges at Europe’s highest c(...)

A case is being referred to the ECJ after the DPC agreed with the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Ireland’s view that exam scripts did not count as personal data under Irish data protection laws and declined to investigate further. Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters
Data Protection Commissioner could face scrutiny over case

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) could face legal scrutiny after a second case it refused to investigate is to be referred by Irish court(...)

The Supreme Court has unanimously agreed to ask the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to determine whether a man’s accountancy exam paper counts as personal data. File photograph: Getty Images
Accountancy exam paper dispute referred to EU court

The Supreme Court has unanimously agreed to ask the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to determine whether a man’s accountancy exam paper (...)

Steven Gerrard of Los Angeles Galaxy and Andrea Pirlo of New York City FC make all the right noises about the standard of play. Photograph: Getty Images
America at Large: MLS still the home of overpaid has-beens

Towards the end of last year’s Major League Soccer season, footage of Andrea Pirlo defending a corner for New York City FC went viral. Well, when we s(...)