A Bristol lawyer has apologised after rubbish he was seen throwing into a city centre litter bin turned out to be a colleague’s confidential case notes.
A cafe worker saw Stephen Davies QC put the papers into a bin on 21 January close to the city’s legal centre.
Mr Davies said he had been helping a colleague change a tyre and thought he was clearing “accumulated old rubbish”.
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The files, handed to the BBC, show the medical and financial details of a woman going through a case in the Court of Appeal.
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BBC News has, on request, handed the documents to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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