The Law of Privacy and the Media First Cumulative Updating Supplement

by Tugendhat, Michael; Christie, Iain

• ISBN13: 9780199268788
• ISBN10: 0199268789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This first cumulative supplement to The Law of Privacy and the Media covers all developments in the key areas of the subject up to November 2003. It will be an essential purchase for all who already own the main work, and will maintain its currency. The supplement updates the main work paragraph by paragraph, following the same structure as the main work. Cases analysed include Campbell v MGN , Peck v UK , D v L and Cream Holdings v Banerjee . The authors also analyse the DCMS Select Committee report on Media Intrusion.

Author Biography

Sir Michael Tugendhat was educated at Ampleforth College, at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, where he was a scholar and read Classics and Philosophy, at Yale University, on a Henry Fellowship, and at the Hague Academy of International Law, at both of which he studied International Law. He is Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder of the Crown Court and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He trained in Mediation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva and acts as arbitrator in ICC and other arbitrations. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of London, for which he acted as Chair of the Civil Law Working Party on Corruption in 1999. Michael Tugendhat is married with four sons. Iain Christie was educated at Plymouth College and Hatfield College Durham where he read law. He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1989 and in 1991 admitted to the bar of the High Court of Australia. Between 1992 and 2000 he was an assistant legal adviser, HM Diplomatic Service in which capacity he acted for the British Government as agent in proceedings before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights and was a member of the Bill team that drafted the Human Rights Act 1998. He is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and research student at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is also a member of the editorial board of the European Human Rights Law Review and a member of the board of management of the Durham University Human Rights Centre. Iain Christie is married with two daughters.

Table of Contents

Tables of Cases	ix
Tables of Adjudications of the Media Regulators	xvii
Tables of Legislation	xix
Table of Treaties, Conventions, and Other International Instruments	xxiii
I SOURCES, PRINCIPLES, AND RIGHTS
1. Context and Background	1	(12)
2. Principles and Sources	13	(6)
3. Privacy Rights	19	(10)
II PERSONAL INFORMATION
4. Publication of Personal Information	29	(12)
5. Data Protection and the Media	41	(12)
III CAUSES OF ACTION
6. Privacy and Confidentiality	53	(32)
7. Privacy and Defamation	85	(8)
8. Privacy, Copyright, and Moral Rights	93	(6)
IV DEFENCES
9. Justifications and Defences	99
V REMEDIES
10. Remedies	115	(12)
VI ISSUES OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE MEDIA
11. Freedom of Information and Newsgathering	127	(6)
12. Privacy and the Administration of Justice	133	(4)
13. The Privacy Codes	137	(10)
14. Protection of Journalistic Material	147	(4)
Index	151