Law Commission summary consultation on evidence in sexual offences prosecutions

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Closes 31 Oct 2023

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Under the General Data Protection Regulation (May 2018), the Law Commissions must state the lawful bases for processing personal data. The Commissions have a statutory function, stated in the 1965 Act, to receive and consider any proposals for the reform of the law which may be made or referred to us. This need to consult widely requires us to process personal data in order for us to meet our statutory functions as well as to perform a task, namely reform of the law, which is in the public interest. We therefore rely on the following lawful bases:

(c) Legal obligation: processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

(e) Public task: processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Law Commission projects are usually lengthy and often the same area of law will be considered on more than one occasion. The Commissions will, therefore retain personal data in line with our retention and deletion policies, via hard copy filing and electronic filing, and, in the case of the Law Commission of England and Wales, a bespoke stakeholder management database, unless we are asked to do otherwise. We will only use personal data for the purposes outlined above.

Freedom of information

We may publish or disclose information you provide us in response to our papers, including personal information. For example, we may publish an extract of your response in our publications, or publish the response in its entirety. We may also share any responses received with Government. Additionally, we may be required to disclose the information, such as in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. If you want information that you provide to be treated as confidential please contact us first, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be regarded as binding on the Law Commissions. Please see theinformation on anonymity and confidentiality for more information. The Law Commissions will process your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in May 2018.

Any concerns about the contents of this Privacy Notice can be directed to: enquiries@lawcommission.gov.uk.

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Anonymity and confidentiality

We may publish or disclose information you provide us in response to this consultation, including personal information such as your name. Consultation responses are most effective where we are able to report which consultees responded to us, and what they said. However, we are keen to hear from those who have been personally affected by potential problems with how the law currently operates and so recognise that the ability to maintain anonymity could be important. You will now be asked, whether you would like your responses to be anonymous (meaning we may publish or disclose what you say in your responses, but will not reveal that the information came from you) or confidential (meaning we will not publish or disclose anything you say in your response but we can reveal the fact that you provided a response). For more information on anonymity, confidentiality, how we consult and how we may use responses to the consultation, please see pages ii and iii of the consultation paper. For information about how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy notice.

Anonymity: Would you like your responses to this consultation to be treated anonymously (this means that we may publish or disclose what you say in your responses, but will not reveal that the information came from you)?

(Required)

Confidentiality: If you consider that it is necessary for all or some of the information that you provide in this response to be treated as confidential and so neither published nor disclosed, please let us know here and explain why you want it to be treated as confidential. If you ask for your response to be treated confidentially, it means that you are requesting that we will not publish or disclose anything that you say in your response, but we can reveal the fact that you have provided a response. If you have requested that your response be anonymous, we will not reveal the fact that any information came from you.

As explained in our privacy notice, we will take full account of your request and explanation but cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances.

Would you like your responses to be treated as confidential?

Which of the following categories would you consider apply to you? (please tick as many as applicable)