Robin Hopkins biography

Robin is a leading specialist in information law: data protection, privacy and freedom of information.

Robin is the top-ranked junior in Chambers & Partners for data protection (the sole ‘star individual’ junior for 2018 and 2019), and a top-tier junior in Legal 500. He is also listed by Global Data Review as one of the world’s leading data privacy lawyers under the age of 40.

He has vast experience on GDPR and DPA issues such as data breaches, compensation claims, ICO actions, subject access requests, direct marketing, and media disputes. He is currently retained by a number of major multinationals on some of the ground-breaking cases emerging under the GDPR.

Robin has appeared in hundreds of information rights appeals (FOI and environmental information) and maintains 11KBW’s Panopticon blog.