Dr Corless provides expert witness services via J Corless Limited. The company’s registered office is c/o Harvey Simon & Co, 433 Chester Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 9HA. This privacy notice provides information about the personal information we process about you as a data controller, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Our ICO registration number is Z1499538.
Please contact Dr Corless via secretary@jcorless.co.uk or via 07739 650063 with any questions or requests about the personal information we process.
Your rights
We are committed to protecting your rights to privacy. They include:
Right to be informed about what we do with your personal data;
Right to have a copy of all the personal information we process about you;
Right to rectification of any inaccurate data we process, and to add to the information we hold about you if it is incomplete;
Right to be forgotten and your personal data destroyed;
Right to restrict the processing of your personal data;
Right to object to the processing we carry out based on our legitimate interest;
The personal data we process, why we process it, where it comes from and the legal basis for doing so
Legal cases
We process the personal data of individuals who are obtaining legal advice or are engaged in a legal dispute, and also the personal data of witnesses and others with links to the issues in the case.
The personal data may include:
The personal data are generally provided by the person instructing us in relation to the legal issues, who is usually a solicitor.
We process the data because it is in our legitimate interests as an expert witness to do so. We need to see and analyse documents containing this information in order to provide our expert advice.
In relation to any special category personal data, such as health records or information concerning race, ethnic origin, or sex, we rely on the legal claims basis for processing this data, in addition to our legitimate interest.
In many cases, an individual has consented to the transfer of their personal data to us. Where an individual has consented, he or she may easily withdraw it by notifying Dr Corless via secretary@jcorless.co.uk.
Other personal data
We also process personal data pursuant to our legitimate interests in running our business such as:
As an employer, we process personal data further to contracts of employment with our employees. The information includes:
Names, addresses and contact details
Pay and bank details, pay slips
Curricula vitae, contracts of employment, references and appraisals
Health information (in reliance on the occupational health exemption contained in the Data Protection Act 2018)
Retention period
Personal data in legal cases is retained, where necessary, for six years in compliance with our professional indemnity obligations. Where this is not necessary, it is destroyed on the conclusion of the case.
Administrative data is retained for up to seven years as necessary, in the unlikely event there are queries from HMRC and the VAT commissioner. Where it is not necessary to retain the data for six years, it is destroyed as soon as possible.
Personal data relating to employees who have left our employment is also retained for up to six years as necessary. This is the time limit for bringing a breach of contract claim. In some case we destroy it as soon as the employee leaves.
Whom do we share personal data with?
We share personal data internally strictly on a need to know basis.
Special category data and personnel files held electronically are encrypted with restricted access. Hard copy special category and other personal data is stored securely with restricted access.
We do not share personal data with anyone external to the organisation, other than with:
Those who have instructed us as an expert witness
HMRC and the VAT Commissioner as they require
With others pursuant to a court order
Information Commissioner' s Office
If you have any concerns about the way your personal information has been processed, please contact Dr Corless. Alternatively, you may contact the Information Commissioner' s Office on 0303 123 1113.