David Holmes
David.Holmes@kennedyslaw.com
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Profile
David is a senior associate - FCILEX within the specialist liability team, liability defence division.
He has extensive experience acting for local authorities, police forces and corporate bodies in relation to a wide range of specialist liability claims, including data breach, failure to remove, abuse & death in care matters. David has focussed on specialist data breach & Subject Access Request claims, including relating to the sharing of social care records in high-risk situations, loss of employee personnel files, alleged failure to retain CCTV & complex allegations relating to inappropriate retention of police criminal records.
David graduated from the University of Hull in 2005 with a degree in Law. He then completed the LPC course at the College of Law in Guildford.
Qualifications:
- FCILEX qualified in England and Wales in 2013
Work highlights
- Achieved discontinuance in a claim where it was alleged that CCTV of the Claimant’s visit to the Defendant’s premises was inappropriately shared
- Achieved modest settlement, in situation where social care records were emailed to the incorrect recipient
- Achieved discontinuance in a claim in which it was alleged that the Claimant’s identity as an informant was wrongly shared with the accused
- Achieved discontinuance in a claim where the local authority wrongly shared the Claimant’s Covid0-19 status
- Achieved a modest settlement, in a case where the Claimant’s photograph was used on the local authority’s website, without her permission
- Achieved discontinuance of a claim, relating to the inappropriate relationship between the vulnerable Claimant & her chiropractor
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