Case law processing

Who we are

Standard Consulting & Training Ltd (trading as InquestIQ, company number 16912584) is the controller for the processing described below. Our registered office is 39 Cogley Lane, Bingham, Nottingham NG13 8DE. You can reach us at david@standardconsulting.co.uk.

Why you are receiving this notice

You may be named in a coronial judgment that InquestIQ has re-ingested from The National Archives’ Find Case Law service. We did not collect your data from you directly, so UK GDPR Article 14 requires us to give you this notice.

What data we process

We process the personal data contained in inquest-related judgments published by the courts of England and Wales, including:

• Names, initials, or honorifics of parties, witnesses, and representatives
• Dates and circumstances of death
• Cause of death as found by the coroner
• Family relationships
• Professional roles (medical, legal, custodial)
• Where relevant to the judgment: health data and records of arrest or conviction

We do not re-anonymise judgments. If the court applied a reporting restriction or used initials, that anonymisation is preserved in the version we display.

Where the data comes from

The source is Find Case Law, operated by The National Archives. We hold a transactional licence (reference CAS-325861-P5K7T8) that permits re-publication and analysis of the judgments listed at /case-law for the purposes described in this notice.

Why we process it

The purpose is legal research and professional reference. Our users are solicitors, barristers, coroners’ officers, and other professionals working on inquest-related matters. They need a searchable index of how the courts have interpreted coronial powers and duties to advise their clients and to argue cases in court.

Legal basis

Under Article 6, our legal basis is the performance of a task in the public interest (Article 6(1)(e), read with section 8 of the Data Protection Act 2018) — the open-justice principle. In the alternative, we rely on our legitimate interests in providing a research tool to legal professionals (Article 6(1)(f)).

Where the data is special-category (health information, for example), we rely on Article 9(2)(f) — the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity. In the alternative, we rely on Article 9(2)(g) and Schedule 1 Part 2 paragraph 13 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (judicial proceedings).

Where the data concerns alleged or actual criminal offences, we rely on section 10 of the Data Protection Act 2018 read with Schedule 1 Part 2 paragraph 13 (substantial public interest — judicial proceedings).

Who can read it

Full judgment text is accessible only to authenticated, paying Pro-tier subscribers to InquestIQ. Free and Basic subscribers see metadata only. Search engines (Google, Bing, and others) are blocked from indexing our case-law surface via robots.txt and per-page noindex tags. We apply a per-user rate limit (100 full-body reads per hour) to prevent bulk scraping.

We do not sell or share the data with third parties for marketing or profiling. We do not transfer the data outside the United Kingdom.

How long we keep it

We retain judgments indefinitely while our licence with The National Archives remains active. The judicial record is by design permanent. If The National Archives marks a judgment as removed from Find Case Law, our nightly sync removes it from our system within 24 hours.

If you successfully exercise your erasure right (below), we mark the row removed and stop displaying it. We retain a minimal audit record of the erasure to demonstrate compliance to The National Archives and the ICO if asked.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you (Article 15)
• Rectification of inaccurate data (Article 16) — we will pass corrections back to The National Archives where appropriate
• Erasure of your data from our system (Article 17). We may refuse where processing is required for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims (Article 17(3)(e))
• Restriction of processing (Article 18)
• Objection to processing under our public task or legitimate-interests basis (Article 21). We will review on a case-by-case basis

To exercise any of these rights, email david@standardconsulting.co.uk with the neutral citation of the judgment concerned and enough information to confirm your identity. We will respond within 30 days.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint. We would prefer to hear from you first so we can try to resolve the matter, but you can go straight to the ICO if you would rather.

Automated decision-making

We do not use automated decision-making within the meaning of Article 22 of the UK GDPR. The case-law surface is a full-text search and presentation tool only.