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Written by a specialist team of academics and media barristers,
The Law of Privacy and the Media offers expert guidance on English media privacy law, outlining key legislation and legal rules. It includes comparative perspectives and addresses current debates about the form and scope of modern privacy protection.
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Adam Wolanski KC and Victoria Simon-Shore: Context and Background
- 2: N A Moreham: The Nature of the Privacy Interest
- 3: Samuel Rowe with foreign law contributors: Privacy in European, Civil, and Common Law
- Part II: Publication of Personal Information
- 4: Justin Rushbrooke KC, Adam Speker KC, and Ben Hamer: Breach of Confidence
- 5: N A Moreham, Jane Phillips, Chloe Strong, and Samuel Rowe: Misuse of Private Information
- 6: N A Moreham and Luke Browne: Harassment by Publication
- 7: Jonathan Scherbel-Ball, Felicity McMahon, and Hope Williams: Data Protection: Breach of Statutory Duty
- 8: Adam Speker KC: Defamation
- 9: Adam Speker KC, and Lily Walker-Parr: Copyright, Moral Rights, and the Right to One's Image
- 10: N A Moreham and Clara Hamer: Intrusion into Physical Privacy
- 11: N A Moreham, Richard Munden, and Gemma McNeil-Walsh: Justifications and Defences
- 12: David Hirst and Gemma McNeil-Walsh: Remedies
- Part III: The Action
- 13: Adam Speker KC, Adrienne Page KC, Greg Callus, and Julian Santos: Practice and Procedure
- Part IV: Privacy Regulation
- 14: John Stables and Ben Gallop: The Privacy Codes
- 15: Godwin Busuttil, Felicity McMahon, and Gervase de Wilde: Privacy, the Internet, and Social Media
About the author
N A Moreham is a Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington specializing in media law and the law of obligations. She was co-editor of the second and third editions of this work and co-edits the Journal of Media Law. Her work has been extensively cited by courts and law reform agencies throughout the Commonwealth. Professor Moreham was formerly a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where she also completed her LLM and PhD, the latter under the supervision of the late Tony Weir.
Adam Speker KC is a barrister at 5RB specialising in all aspects of media and communications law, in particular, misuse of private information, breach of confidence, defamation, harassment by speech and data protection. He was called to the Bar in 1999, took silk in 2020, and was elected a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2023. He regularly appears in many of the leading cases involving media was a contributor to the first three editions of this text.
Summary
Written by a specialist team of academics and media barristers, The Law of Privacy and the Media offers expert guidance on English media privacy law, outlining key legislation and legal rules. It includes comparative perspectives and addresses current debates about the form and scope of modern privacy protection.
