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On this occasion, the Government amended domestic law accordingly the Interception of Communications Act 1985 to regulate phone tapping. This provisions now contained in the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act 2000.
When UK signed the Convention in 1950 and accepted the obligation of Art.1 of the convention that, “secure for everyone with in its jurisdiction” that means it ensuring that the law under the process of administration and government conducted in a way that is compatible with the convention. The convention is based on the rule of law. An absence of a clear rule makes everything uncertain. In Malone V UK  the court of Human Right (HR) held that in absence of the effective regal regulation of telephone tapping was a violation of Article 8. as a result the Interception of Communication Act 1985 was enacted. But in the beginning of the century in Halford V UK (1997)  it became clear that the new law was inadequate and unable to create effective legal control.
Some adverse judgement may require the UK to change the terms of an Act of Parliament which is regulating some activity. For example the on Sexual offences Act 1956 such as buggery and indency between males, was reformed by the Sexual Offences (amendment) Act 2003. It was the response of the decisions of court of HR in ADT V UK,  which held that the previous law of Sexual offence Act 1956 failed to secure the right to private life of homosexual men.
In according to administrative practices the convention has had some of its most significant effects in the United Kingdom. For example, in Smith and Grady V UK  in this case homosexual in the military was band by the British Armed Forced. But this practice of the military was ended as a result of an adverse decision of the court of Human Rights.
However there have such laws which are bounded by technical limitation between privacy and confidentiality. In R v BCC (Broadcasting Complaints Commission) ex parte Granada Television  in that case two parents of murdered children complained to the BCC that Granada TV broadcasting their children cases without their prior permission or notification. Under sec.143 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 the BCC have a duty to consider upon complaints of unwarranted infringements of privacy. The applicants claim that ,as the death had been reported publicly in the past so it could not form the basis of an infringements of privacy under sec.143.The BCC upheld the complaints not forewarning the parents this is an unwarranted infringement. The principle of this case informed, development of the Law of Confidentiality under H R A 1998.
According to art 8(1) it is clearly made known that, Art.8 covers an individual right to family life, his home and correspondence. Nevertheless art.8 is clearly wide enough relating the privacy issues to protecting individual personal information. In identifying of the applicant interest court must decide whether it falls with in the four nominated interest: private life, family life, home or correspondence.
Article8 is qualified right. In order to be justified, however interference by the state with a person art.8 right must be justified by one of the exceptions detailed in article 8(2) and must meet the general requirements of justification in accordance with law.
The ECtHR given a broad interpretation of the term of ‘private life’ in Niemietz v Germany  in that case it goes further than a right to privacy in the strict sense of control over personal information and it is also linked with notions of personal sovereignty and development.  Further the court said that Article 8 applied to individual majority of people have a remarkable opportunity of developing relationships with the outside world. Accordingly, in the area of secret surveillance the court has found a violation of the right to private life in cases not only the act was committed in the applicants home  but also carried out on business premises. The European court in Halford v United Kingdom  held that, an individual entitled to private telephone conversation on work premises. Article 8 also protect a person’s physical and moral integrity. In X and Y v Netherlands  it was held that, a states owes appositive duty to protect those interests from attack which is related under Art.3 of ECHR, prohibits the subjection of individuals to torture and other form of ill treatment. Also this article has a horizontal effect by imposing a duty on the state safeguard the rights of the applicant.
The applicant argued that there had been a violation of her right to respect for private and family life when her husband had been refused permission to end her life. The court held that the notion of personal independence was an important principle underlying the interpretation of Article 8 and that the ability to conduct one’s life in a manner of one’s choosing might also include the opportunity to trail activities supposed to be of a physically or morally harmful or dangerous nature for the individual concerned. The right to private life includes the right to obtain one’s right to personal identity. In the case Jaggi v Switzerland  it was held that there had been a violation of Article 8 when the applicant had been refused permission to have DNA carried out on a dead person with a view of discovering whether that the person was his biological father. The European Court has accepted that person’s name concerns a person’s private life and protected under Article 8.
The right to respect of family life is specifically protected by both Article 8 and Article 12 of the convention: the latter article providing that men and women of marriageable age have been right to marry and found a family, according to the national laws governing the exercise of that right. In the case of Marckx v Belgium,  it was established that, the Article 8 and 12 do not just apply to the traditional idea of families based on marriage, but also extend to other relationship. In Goodwin v UK  it was held that the right to family life was engaged in respect of the claimant’s relationship with an unknown sperm donor.
According to Mentes v Turkey  this case law addressing the meaning of the term “Home” the term may extended to a professional persons office, although a states entitlement to interfere under Art.8(2) “might well be more far reaching where professional or business activities or premises were involved than would otherwise be the case” (Niemietz v Germany)  . The terms correspondence has been broadly defined to cover telephone conversation as well as written correspondence as well as the new forms of E-mail. (Klass v Germany)  The court found a violation of Art.8 and Art.6 in Silver v UK  where a number of prison regulations interfering with the prisoner right of correspondence were declared in violation of Art 6 and 8 on the basis that, they were not sufficiently accessible in accordance with law.
“1 Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The courts emphasized the importance of the right protected by art 10 ‘which constitutes one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man’.
However the press intrusion into private life has dominated arguments surrounding the domestic law of privacy there is limited case law under European Convention on Human Rights in these areas. Article 8 of the convention guaranteeing the right to private and family life in addition that right is qualified with in the Art8(2),most notably the rights of others to freedom of expression Until recently there was little guidance to be gained to resolved that conflict.
The United Kingdom cases decided in Strasbourg in Winer v UK  concerned there was a publication of a book entitled Inside BOSS. The book contained intimate references to the applicant’s private life and his relationship with his former wife. The applicant submitted that some of the allegations in the book were true, of others he could not prove their untruth and others were false, but that all were inextricably interwoven so as to constitute a gross invasion of his and his former wife’s privacy, a matter not generally protected under English law.
In its observations to the Commission the UK had denied that the English law inadequately protected a right to privacy. The government pointed to the balance which must be struck between the individual’s right to privacy and other individual’s right to freedom of expression. Here the European commission held that, an individual was allowed to sue with respect to untrue statement. The law of defamation provided him with some protection of his Art8 rights. Thus in Barclays v United Kingdom  the commission accepted that, the applicants had a right to remedy in respect of the filming of their family home by Television reporters. But in Earl Spencer* v U.K  here the court rejected the claim because the applicant had failed to exhaust all effective domestic remedies by bringing a claim in the law of confidentiality. It seems now clear that even though the convention does not require a specific remedy in every case, the development of privacy remedies in respect of press intrusion is required in appropriate case.
The principle dilemma facing the courts is how to balance the individual’s right to private life under Art 8 and with the right of the press freedom and freedom of expression under Art 10, to publish information to the public. There was some authority before the Human Rights Act to the effect that the disclouser of details of the private lives of public celebrities was in the public interest. In Woodward v Hutchins  it was held that, there was a public interest in the disclosure of the private sexual activities of a number of pop celebrities. That decision, which it should be noted was delivered at an interlocutory stage, was viewed with a good deal of reservation, assuming as that public celebrities are seen as role models and that the public has a genuine interest in the majority of their activities.
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