High Court Orders Defendant to Make Data Subject Access Request

High Court Orders Defendant to Make Data Subject Access Request to Satisfy Plaintiff’s Discovery Request

For parties involved in litigation against individual counter-parties, the recent case of Susquehanna International Group Ltd v Needham confirms the availability of an alternative means of obtaining relevant documents from non-parties to the litigation and at a much lower cost, by means of a data subject access request. While the High Court did note that an order compelling a counter-party to make such a request will not always be appropriate, it did generally endorse this approach as a “straightforward, less costly process” to seeking discovery from a non-party.