Data protection breach decision upheld in hospice worker's unauthorised breaks case

The disciplinary action arose as a result of an inquiry into graffiti which had been carved into a table saying: "Kill all whites, ISIS is my life"

Mr Justice Seamus Noonan, on behalf of the three-judge appeal court, said it seemed to him that it could not reasonably be said that Mr Doolin had either been notified that the CCTV could be used for disciplinary purposes or that there was any basis upon which he ought reasonably to have expected such use. File picture

The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a hospice employee's data protection rights were breached over the use of data from CCTV footage in a disciplinary investigation into unauthorised breaks.

The disciplinary action against Cormac Doolin arose as a result of an inquiry into graffiti which had been carved into a table of the staff tea room saying: "Kill all whites, ISIS is my life".