Developing Key Privacy Rights

Madeleine Colvin

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9781841131689
• eBook ISBN: 9781847314437
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Law
• Index: Law

With the incorporation into domestic law of the European Convention on Human Rights, the UK courts will increasingly be called upon to strike the balance between the potentially conflicting rights of the right to privacy under Article 8 and the right to freedom of expression under Article 10. This book looks at the legal and constitutional development of both these rights and the relationship between them in several other countries: France, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and before the European Court of Human Rights. With a particular focus on cases concerning the media, it is an important source for all those interested in the development of these areas of law under the Human Rights Act. Contributors:
Madeleine Colvin; Catherine Dupré; Rosalind English; David Lindsay; Marguerite Russell; Jemima Stratford; Rosemary Tobin

Table of contents

• Prelims
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Striking the Balance: Privacy v Freedom of Expression under the European Conventionon Human Rights
• 3 The Protection of Private Life versus Freedom of Expression in French Law
• 4 Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Speech in Germany
• 5 The Impact of the Charter of Rights on Privacy and Freedom of Expression in Canada
• 6 Privacy and Freedom of Expression in New Zealand
• 7 Freedom of Expression, Privacy and the Media in Australia