Landmark Cases in Privacy Law

✍ Scribed by Paul Wragg; Peter Coe (editors)

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Series: Landmark Cases
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new addition to Hart’s acclaimed Landmark Cases series is a diverse and engaging edited collection bringing together eminent commentators from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to analyse cases of enduring significance to privacy law.
The book tackles the conceptual nature of privacy in its various guises, from data protection, to misuse of private information, and intrusion into seclusion. It explores the practical issues arising from questions about the threshold of actionability, the function of remedies, and the nature of damages.
The cases selected are predominantly English but include cases from the United States (because of the formative influence of United States’ privacy jurisprudence on the development of privacy law), Australia, Canada, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Court of Human Rights. Each chapter considers the reception and application (and, in some instances, rejection) outside of the jurisdiction where the case was decided.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
1. Pollard v Photographic Company (1888)
I. Introduction
II. Victorian Technology and the Science of 'Interpretation'
III. The Decision in Pollard v Photographic Company
IV. The Accidental Landmark
V. Conclusion
2. Roberson v Rochester Folding Box (1900)
I. The Right to Privacy in the Harvard Law Review
II. Roberson v Rochester Folding Box: Abby's Victories
III. Roberson v Rochester Folding Box: Abby's Defeat
IV. Roberson v Rochester Folding Box: the Fallout
V. Foster v Svenson: The Neighbors
VI. The Legacy
3. Pavesich v New England Insurance Co (1905)
I. Introduction
II. Historic and Legal Background
III. Who was Paolo Pavesiche?
IV. The case
V. The Judgment
VI. A Universal Natural Right?
VII. Reception and Legacy
VIII. Conclusion
4. Whalen v Roe (1977)
I. Introduction
II. Whalen v Roe and the Constitutional Right to informational Privacy
III. Subsequent Judicial Devlopments Surrounding the Right of Informational Privacy in the Federal Courts
IV. Statutory Privacy Protections in the United States often will Obviate the Need for a Judicial Intervention to Secure the Right of Informational Privacy
V. Conclusion
5. Kaye v Robertson (1990)
I. Introduction
II. The Facts and Decision
III. The Context: Tabloids, Press Intrusion and the Politics of Reform
IV. The Reasoning in the Court of Appeal
V. The Aftermath
VI. The Legal Legacy of Kaye v Robertson
VII. The Parties After Kaye
VIII. Press Culture and Reform Revisited
IX. Conclusion
6. Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd (2001)
I. Introduction
II. The Law in Australia Prior to Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats
III. The Judgments in Australian Broadcasting Corporation Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd
IV. Impact on the Development of Australian law
V. Impact on the Development of English and New Zealand Privacy Law
VI. Recommendations for Privacy Law Reform
VII. Why Has No Cause of Action for Invasion of Privacy Arisen Under Australian Law Yet?
VIII. Conclusion
7. A v B & C (2002)
I. Introduction
II. The Confidence/Privacy test
III. Balancing Privacy and Freedom of Expression
IV. Conclusion
V. Postscript
8. Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers (2004)
I. Introduction
II. Campbell: The Facts and Findings
III. Contrasting the Judgements of the House of Lords and Court of Appeal
IV. Campbell's Multiple Innovations
V. The Campbell Approach to Balancing Free Speech and Privacy: A Reply to Paul Wragg
VI. Conclusion
9. Von Hannover v Germany (2004)
I. Privacy Theory and the Recognition of a Social Interaction Conception of Privacy
II. Von Hannover v Germany – a Landmark Judgment?
III. Von Hannover (No.2) – A Retreat from Von Hannover
IV. An Enhanced Role for the Court?
V. Conclusion
10. Douglas v Hello! Ltd (2005)
I. Introduction
II. The Litigation
III. Breach of Confidence Versus Misuse of Private Information
IV. Privacy Intersets in Photographs
V. Image Control
VI. Remedies
VII. Conclusion
11. Jones v Tsige (2012)
I. Introduction
II. The Facts
III. The Decision
IV. Conclusion
12. Google Spain, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (2014)
I. Facts and Background
II. The Immediate and Direct Aftermath of Google Spain
III. An Internet Search Engine as Controller 2.0?
IV. Search Engine Indexing Not Journalistic or Similar
V. The Geographical reach of Google Spain
VI. Conclusion
13. Gulati v Mirror Group Newspapers (2015)
I. Introduction
II. The Legal Landscapes Prior to Gulati
III. The Gulati Litigation
IV. Subsequent Impact of Gulati Upon the Law
V. Gulati: An Assessment
VI. Conclusion
14. PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd (2016)
I. Introduction
II. Tort law and MPI
III. Third Party Interests: the competing lines of authority
IV. PJS
V. Rationalising the TPI doctrine: the choices
VI. Conclusion
Index