Sentence examples for tort of privacy from inspiring English sources

— Jessica Rudd (@Jess_Rudd) September 8, 2013 A few good reasons for a tort of privacy.

A statutory tort of privacy would enable parliament, after due public debate, to give guidance to the courts on how the balance between privacy and expression should be resolved.

Intrusion looks like trespass, false light like defamation, and appropriation like theft; and the harm that remains when these extraneous offenses are subtracted is so admirably captured by the phrase "infliction of emotional distress" as to render the tort of privacy invasion all but superfluous.

It's also plain that, in the absence of any parliamentary will, many judges are reluctant to develop a new tort of privacy on their own - though Rozenberg is good on the different judicial factions, with varying degrees of appetite for a fight.

(C) Though there is no omnibus tort of privacy in Singapore, the tort of harassment protects an individual's privacy interests.

There's the case of Hosking v Runting, which established the independent tort of privacy.

Statutory torts of privacy have been introduced in four provinces of Canada.

First, Prosser's fragmented privacy tort should be replaced with a unitary tort for invasion of privacy that looks to the private or public nature of the information, the degree to which a defendant's conduct violates existing social norms, and the social welfare implications of the defendant's conduct.

(He then sued the company for the tort of invasion of privacy and, as part of the settlement, made the President of G.M. publicly apologize).

(He then sued the company for the tort of invasion of privacy and, as part of the settlement, made the President of G.M. publicly apologize). An exhibit in front of the Corvair includes a cartoon of the attempted seduction: Nader pushes a shopping cart through a supermarket as a blond woman in a tight dress winks at him.

So the creep is liable under the Crimes Act for unlawfully recording the flatmate, but the female also sued the guy in tort for breach of privacy.