The Law of Privacy and The Media

Written by a specialist team of academics and media barristers, The Law of Privacy and the Media gives expert guidance for practitioners working on cases relating to privacy and the media and will be of value to academics with an interest in this field. The book offers an overview of 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. The 4th edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media has been fully updated to address numerous changes to the legal landscape since the last edition, including the impact of Brexit on privacy protection. The book provides detailed but accessible chapters on GDPR and the various forms of wrongful publication of personal information, as well as intrusion into physical privacy, before considering justifications and defences, remedies, and the procedure to be followed in such cases. It deals in detail with practice in media law cases, including how to obtain and challenge derogations from open justice, harassment by speech, data protection law as it relates to the media, and the media regulatory codes, covering OFCOM and IPSO decisions. Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, The Law of Privacy and The Media has established itself as the leading reference work on the rapidly developing law of privacy in England and Wales. It has been frequently referred to in privacy cases, with extracts cited with approval in judgments at all levels. This new edition brings the work fully up to date offering detailed, practical, and authoritative guidance, essential for practitioners in this area.

1 - Context and Background
2 - The Nature of the Privacy Interest
3 - Privacy in European, Civil, and Common Law
4 - Breach of Confidence
5 - Misuse of Private Information
6 - Harassment by Publication
7 - Data Protection: Breach of Statutory Duty
8 - Defamation
9 - Copyright, Moral Rights, and the Right to One's Image
10 - Intrusion into Physical Privacy
11 - Justifications and Defences
12 - Remedies
13 - Practice and Procedure
14 - The Privacy Codes
15 - Privacy, the Internet, and Social Media

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.