Privacy law handbook
By: edited by Keith Mathieson
Series: Legal handbooks; Legal handbooks (Law Society (Great Britain))
Publisher: The Law Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781853288432
Subjects: Datenschutz; Privatsphäre; Recht; Persönlichkeitsrecht; Right of Privacy
Description: Written in a clear and accessible style by a team of expert contributors from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP the 'Privacy Law Handbook' brings together all aspects of privacy law in a single volume.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. An overview of laws relating to privacy / Keith Mathieson; title: 2. Breach of confidence / Andrew Hobson; title: 3. Misuse of private information / Keith Mathieson; title: 4. Data protection / Tamar Shafran; title: 5. Breaches of security in personal data / Alex Hamer; title: 6. The overlap of privacy with other rights: defamation, copyright, freedom of information and protection of sources / Keith Mathieson; title: 7. Surveillance, interception of communications and state access to private information / Keith Mathieson; title: 8. Rights against intrusion: trespass, harassment and nuisance / Lindsay Hodgkinson; title: 9. Medical confidentiality / Dorothy Flower and Clare Jaycock; title: 10. Privacy and the courts / Brid Jordan and Kim Hardman; title: 11. Self-regulation of privacy: press and broadcasting codes / Keith Mathieson.