Privacy
This edition of the site publishes nothing about any named practitioner. It is still built from registers of named living people, which are collected and held, and that is still processing of personal data. This page says what is done with it and how to stop it.
What this edition publishes about individuals: nothing. There is no page about any practitioner, no firm, town or court page, no name in the search index and no register offered as a file. What is published is the professions, the comparison, what each may lawfully do, and figures the regulators published themselves.
The registers are nevertheless collected and held, in order to produce those figures and to answer a question about one of them. So the rest of this page still applies to the holding, and the rights at the foot of it are exercisable against the holding, whether or not anything about you was ever published. Sources and licences says why this edition is the shape it is.
Who the controller is
Assize Data Ltd is the data controller: a private limited company registered in England and Wales, company number 17510115, registered office c/o IWN Accountancy, The Echo Building, 18 Albert Road, Bournemouth, BH1 1BZ. The Assize is one of its publications, published under its Assize News imprint and edited by Rose Traviss. The masthead, the imprint and the controller are not the same thing and should not be confused: a request about your personal data goes to the company.
Write to dataprotection@assizedata.co.uk, or by post to the registered office marked “Data protection”. The company’s data protection page gives the rest, including its registration with the Information Commissioner, and covers Assize News expressly.
What this page covers, and what the company’s notice covers
Two notices apply and they do different work. Assize Data Ltd’s privacy notice covers being a visitor to this site — the request logs its host keeps, the analytics, what happens if you email it, how long any of that is kept, and who processes it. It applies here and is not repeated here.
This page covers the thing that notice cannot: the personal data this publication publishes, about people who never contacted it and did not choose to be here. That is the processing that needs explaining, and it is the rest of this page.
What is held
For each person on the registers listed at sources and licences: their name as the register displays it, the firm and town the register gives, the dates of their authorisation or certificate, what they are authorised to do, and any disciplinary or regulatory decision the regulator itself publishes against them. 9,151 entries in total , none of which is published in this edition.
What is not published, and this is deliberate: telephone numbers, email addresses, DX numbers and photographs. Several of these registers publish all four. They are collected, so that a question about accuracy can be answered against the original, and they never reach a page. The build fails if one does.
Nobody is rated, ranked or scored. No page carries advertising. There are no reviews. No enquiry is sold as a lead.
Why
The public interest in knowing who is authorised to carry on reserved legal work, and on what terms. Four of these professions may carry on activities it is a criminal offence to carry on without authorisation; three of the professions covered are not regulated at all, and the comparison between them is only possible if the registers can be read against each other. Regulators publish these registers for exactly that consumer-protection purpose; this site’s purpose is adjacent to it but not identical, and the difference is what the law cares about.
Lawful basis
Legitimate interests, under Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, for the purpose above. Where processing is for journalism, the exemptions in schedule 2 part 5 of the Data Protection Act 2018 are relied on so far as they apply, and not further. Disciplinary findings are published only while the regulator publishes them and are reproduced in the regulator’s own words, never summarised into a judgment of our own.
Where it is kept
The collected registers are held privately and are not part of what is deployed: the published site is a set of static files, and those files contain only what the pages show. A register that is collected and not published does not reach the edge at all.
Where it came from
Every entry came from the regulator’s own public register, and each page links to it. No data was bought, no data came from a third-party directory, and nothing was taken from court listings.
Your rights
You can object to this processing, ask for a correction, ask for a copy of what is held about you, or ask for your entry to be removed. The removal route is unconditional: no reason is asked for and no balancing exercise is performed before it is actioned. See correct or remove an entry.
A removal is applied at the point the site is built, before any page is written, so it survives the next collection of the register. Deleting the page alone would not: the regulator still lists the person, so the next collection would put them straight back.
Write to dataprotection@assizedata.co.uk.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
How long
An entry is published while the regulator publishes it. When a practitioner leaves a register, the next collection no longer finds them and their page stops being built. A disciplinary finding is published on the regulator’s own clock and is removed when theirs is.
Cookies and analytics
No cookies are set by this site, and there is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to. If analytics are enabled they are Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookie and does not fingerprint visitors. Search runs in your browser against a file served from this site; what you type is not sent anywhere. The company’s cookie statement has the detail.
If you are unhappy with how this was handled
Tell Assize Data Ltd at dataprotection@assizedata.co.uk. It undertakes to acknowledge a complaint about personal data within 30 days and to answer a request within one month. A complaint about what was published, rather than about personal data, goes through complaints. Either way you may go to the Information Commissioner at any point without coming here first.