Data Protection Commissioner and other proposed parties not relevant to action concerning alleged breach of confidentiality

Practice and procedure – defendant’s motion to permit the defendant to join the Attorney General, the Data Protection Commissioner and Danske Bank to the within proceedings – plaintiff as a result of inadvertence forwarded to the plaintiff a disc which allegedly contained confidential information and/or personal data relating to third parties and alleged confidential proprietary information of the plaintiffs including material that is legally privileged – plaintiffs allege that the defendant has utilised the alleged confidential information and shared it with third parties – plaintiffs maintain that the defendant has retained the information to which she is not entitled – relief as sought by the defendant herein as regards joining Danske Bank to these proceedings is refused – motion by the plaintiffs seeking to strike out the defence and counterclaim as it discloses no reasonable cause of action – O. 19, r. 28 of the Rules of the Superior Courts – defendant’s counterclaim will not be allowed to stand save for a singular aspect in respect of a claim pursuant to s. 7 of the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003 – parts of defence struck out.