Abstract
No institution, organisation or company, no matter how august, can make up its own rules on how long it can retain personal data. This message comes through loud and clear in the recent ruling in the case of Dr Rita Pal v The General Medical Council 27 May 2004 (unreported). In this Birmingham District Registry decision from Deputy High Court Judge Charles Harris QC, the court dismissed an application by the GMC and three of its non-medical employees for summary judgment in an action brought against them by a GP for alleged breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 2000, and in defamation. The defendants' submissions relating to the defamation claim were given short shrift and those relating the other claims fared little better.
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