On 19 June 2026, the High Court (Murray J) handed down judgment rejecting an application to strike out the first representative action brought under Article 80 UK GDPR. The Good Law Project, on behalf of various individuals who submitted data subject access requests to Reform in the run-up to the last general election, brought a representative claim against Reform. The claim alleges that Reform’s responses to the requests were both late and substantively deficient.
Reform applied for the claim to be struck out on the basis of allegations that (among other things) the Good Law Project does not satisfy the criteria to bring a representative action under Article 80 UK GDPR and/or that the claim was an abuse of process. Murray J dismissed Reform’s application and held that the claim should proceed to trial. He also awarded the Good Law Project its costs.
Andrew Sharland KC acted for the Good Law Project (leading George Molyneaux of Blackstone Chambers), instructed by Pallas Partners LLP.
The judgment is available here.
