Landmark Cases in Privacy Law

by Paul Wragg (Editor), Paul Mitchell (Editor), Peter Coe (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509967346
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/2024
Series:	Landmark Cases
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Paul Wragg is Professor of Media Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK.
Peter Coe is Associate Professor in Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Pollard v Photographic Company (1888)
Megan Richardson (University of Melbourbane, Australia)
2. Roberson v Rochester Folding Box (1900)
Amy Gajda (Tulane University, USA)
3. Pavesich v New England Insurance Co (1905)
Rebecca Moosavian (University of Leeds, UK)
4. Whalen v Roe (1977)
Ronald J Krotoszynski, Jr. (University of Alabama, USA)
5. Kaye v Robertson (1990)
Jacob Rowbottom (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd (2001)
David Rolph (University of Sydney, Ausatralia)
7. A v B & C (2002)
N A Moreham (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
8. Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers (2004)
Gavin Phillipson University of Bristol, UK)
9. Von Hannover v Germany (2004)
Kirsty Hughes (University of Cambridge, UK)
10. Douglas v Hello! Ltd (2005)
Tanya Aplin (King's College London, UK) and Judith Skillen (University of
Nottingham, UK)
11. Jones v Tsige (2012)
David Mangan (Maynooth University, Ireland)
12. Google Spain, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (2014)
David Erdos (University of Cambridge, UK)
13. Gulati v Mirror Group Newspapers (2015)
John Hartshorne (University of Leicester, UK)
14. PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd (2016)
Thomas DC Bennett (City, University of London, UK)

Editorial Reviews

Highly readable, with the editors and authors the Who's Who of privacy law, and each chapter providing interesting factual or contextual background to what might otherwise be rather dry or complex legal arguments in the judgments … if you are interested in privacy and in the media, you will enjoy this book and come away enlightened and more knowledgeable, and on the look-out for further landmarks.” —Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney Law School, Gazette of Law and Jourbanalism

“This new addition to Hart's acclaimed Landmark Cases series [is] a diverse and engaging edited collection of privacy cases over the past 120 years … The case book is a valuable reference for those undertaking privacy and data protection research at graduate and post-graduate levels and are looking for a scholarly approach to charting the history of privacy case law.” —Ardi Kolah, London, UK, Jourbanal of Data Protection & Privacy

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