Breach of Confidence in UK Law
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Breach of Confidence as a Privacy Remedy in the Human Rights Act Era
This article examines the impact of the Human Rights Act (HRA) on the current lack of a remedy for non‐consensual publication of personal information by the media. It argues that the action for bre...
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Transforming Breach of Confidence? Towards a Common Law Right of Privacy under the Human Rights Act
This article examines the development of a remedy for unauthorised publication of personal information that has resulted from the fusion of breach of confidence with the limited ‘horizontal’ applic...
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New on the net
Cyberliability: generic term coined in the late 1990s for various types of legal liability arising from business use of the Internet and e‐mail including cyber‐libel, copyright infringement, breach...... ... Internet and e-mail including cyber-libel, copyright infringement, breach of confidence, negligent virus transmission, inadvertent contracts, ... ...
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A Potential Framework For Privacy? A Reply To Hello!
In Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 3), the Court of Appeal noted that one ramification of ‘shoehorning’ invasions of privacy into the cause of action of breach of confidence is that ‘it does not fall to b...... ... ‘shoehorning ’ invasions of privacy intothe cause of action of breach of con¢dence is that ‘it does not fall to be treated as a tort under ... ...
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Part 4: Confidentiality and the duty of disclosure (Sub‐group 4: Impact of the initiatives on other areas of the law)
Examines the consequences of disclosing confidential information in the context of provisions of Sections 19 and 20 of the Terrorism Act 2002. Covers criminal law, intermediate law, and civil law, ...... ... theequitable obligation of con®dentiality and one ofwhich went to breach.Where the claim is made out, it is then for theother party to defend by ... ...
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Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd– the Protection of Privacy in English Private Law
... ... 1 that ‘we have reached a point at which it can be said with confidence that the law recognises and will appropriately protect a right of personal ... The defendants appealed. Privacy and breach of confidence Although the injunction was ultimately discharged, the most ... ...
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Secrets, Media and the Law
... ... not clear whether the improvement notice had alleged breach of section 2 rather than section 4 of the Act, so the ... 593 by seeking an injunction based upon breach of confidence has been considered in Lion Laboratories Ltd. v. Evans’ and ... ...
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Elspeth Christie Reid, PERSONALITY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY IN SCOTS LAW Edinburgh: W Green & Son (www.wgreen.co.uk), Scottish Universities Law Institute, 2010. li + 379 pp. ISBN 9780414016811. £120.
... ... ”, Part Four “Defamation and Verbal Injury” and Part Five “Breach of Confidence and Protection of Privacy”. From a practical perspective, ... ...
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Subject Index
... ... LAW Bills of Rights, see CONSTITU- TIONAL LAW BREACH OF CONFIDENCE, see also INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, TORT Trade ... ...
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Trade Secrets: The Spring‐Board Unsprung
... ... relay the information are under an obligation of confidence.a The protection afforded extends to personals as well as ... Jones, I‘ Restitution of Benefits Obtained in Breach of Another’s Confldenco” (1970) 86 L.Q.R. 463; W. R ... ...
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