Privacy Law in UK Law
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A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law
This article draws upon social interaction theory (the work of Irwin Altman) to develop a theory of the right to privacy, which reflects the way that privacy is experienced. This theory states that...
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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...
- Our Patchy Law of Privacy — Time to do Something about It
- Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd– the Protection of Privacy in English Private Law
- HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVATE LAW: PRIVACY AS AUTONOMY. Ed by Katja S Ziegler Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2007. xxviii + 214 pp. ISBN 9781841137148. £35.
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Private Law Solutions in European Data Protection: Relationship to Privacy, and Waiver of Data Protection Rights
In this article a possibility of a private law approach to data protection is considered. The main thesis of the contribution is that the European legal order allows only a limited scope of contrac...
- 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.
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An Invasion of Privacy: The Media's Involvement in Law Enforcement Activities
Thoreau heartily accepted the motto, ‘that government is best which governs least’. Our forefathers braved treacherous oceans and alien lands emboldened by that belief, after enduring the Crown's h...
- Privacy, Property and Personality: Civil Law Perspectives on Commercial Appropriation by Huw Beverley‐Smith, Ansgar Ohly and Agnes Lucas‐Schloetter
- Protecting Privacy in Divorce Actions: Article 8 and the Need for Law Reform
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