{"id":91378,"date":"2018-04-25T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a808c581e7de75b1cae79155de76b94f"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:40:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:40:35","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-data-protection-changes-and-your-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91378","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil\/crime news: data protection changes and your contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are making changes to your contracts to support changes in data protection legislation.<\/p>\n<p>This follows consultation with your consultative bodies concerning the new General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR). This aims to harmonise data privacy laws across the European Union.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-does-it-mean-for-our-contracts\">What does it mean for our contracts?<\/h3>\n<p>You can find the changes in the definition section and clause 16 of all the civil, Civil Legal Advice (CLA) and crime standard terms documents.<\/p>\n<p>Revised versions of the standard terms documents, a summary of the amendments made and a copy of the contract amendment notice can be downloaded from the GOV.UK website \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>All providers have been sent contract amendment notices regarding the amended contract.<\/p>\n<p>These amendments will come into force with effect from 25 May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Amendments relating to the Law Enforcement Directive (Directive (EU) 2016\/680), being implemented via Part 3 of the Data Protection Bill, will come into effect on 6 May 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/topic\/legal-aid-for-providers\/contracts\">GOV.UK: Contracts<\/a> \u2013 to view appropriate contract page and download the amendment notice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data protection legislation means legal aid contracts have to be amended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}