DPC decisions are now on Vizlegal: what practitioners can search, filter, and do from today
Every Data Protection Commission decision is now fully searchable on Vizlegal, with filters, bookmarks, and cross-source search across 34 sources simultaneously.
Data protection has become one of the most active areas of enforcement in Irish and European law. The Data Protection Commission has issued decisions with material consequences for some of the world's largest organisations, and the body of decisions it has produced is now a significant resource for practitioners advising clients on compliance, regulatory risk, and litigation exposure.
Until now, accessing and researching those decisions in a structured way required searching across separate sources. DPC decisions are now fully indexed on Vizlegal, searchable alongside Superior Court judgments, High Court listings, and 34 sources across Irish, UK, and EU legal data.
What the addition includes
Every DPC decision is fully searchable by keyword, with filters across nine practice areas, nine topics, and specific Articles and Sections of data protection legislation. Optical Character Recognition has been applied to all legacy and current decisions, ensuring that older material is as searchable as recent publications.
Each decision links directly back to its originating DPC source, supporting the kind of source verification that practitioners and compliance teams require when advising clients or preparing submissions.
Organising research across data protection matters
Practitioners can tag and bookmark DPC decisions to build structured research views across any theme or topic. A solicitor advising a client on a specific area of data protection law can bookmark relevant decisions, tag them by issue, and return to an organised set of authorities without maintaining separate reference lists outside the platform.
Cross-source search extends this further. Searching a DPC-related keyword across all 34 sources on Vizlegal, covering 17 Irish, 14 UK, and 3 EU sources, surfaces results from every collection simultaneously. For practitioners tracking how data protection issues intersect with litigation in the Superior Courts or with EU-level decisions from the CJEU, this removes the need to run the same search across multiple systems.
What is coming next
Fine range search will allow practitioners to filter decisions by the size of the sanction, from the largest multi-million euro penalties down to more targeted enforcement actions. For compliance teams advising clients on regulatory risk, this will make it easier to identify decisions that are directly comparable to a client's situation.
Where a DPC decision has an appeal pending before the High Court, Vizlegal will link the decision directly to the relevant High Court record, allowing practitioners to track the appeal without leaving the platform. AI-generated summaries of DPC decisions are also in development, providing a concise view of the key facts and legal reasoning in each case.
Data protection is one of the fastest-moving areas of practice in Ireland and across the EU. Having every DPC decision fully searchable, organised, and connected to the broader body of Irish and European legal data makes it easier to stay across developments and advise clients with confidence.
If you work in data protection and would like a walkthrough of what is now available on Vizlegal, book a demo today.