Supreme Court wraps up legal submissions from supermarket and breach victims
"Cutting to the chase, it's not a case where the office cleaner finds a thumb drive, picks it up and takes the opportunity to make some use of it," barrister Jonathan Barnes told the Supreme Court as he urged judges to dismiss Morrisons' appeal against liability for its 2014 payroll data breach.
As reported yesterday, Morrisons is trying to overturn a Court of Appeal verdict that would see it paying out potentially tens of thousands of pounds in compensation to around 9,000 workers suing it.
The case is deceptively simple: should the supermarket be held vicariously liable for the actions of former auditor Andrew Skelton, who helped himself to nearly 100,000 employees' payroll data and dumped it online?
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