Celebrity and Royal Privacy, the Media and the Law

This new work explores the legal landscape surrounding celebrity, privacy and the media. It examines how English law has, and has not, balanced celebrities’ legal expectations of informational and seclusional privacy against the press and the media’s rights to inform and publish. It considers the raft of important recent cases that has significantly changed the law in this area.
This new title:
Explores the position of the Monarch and members of the Royal family in relation to privacy laws
Analyses how the requirements of proportionality should be understood in various practical situations where disputes over privacy arise
Examines all the key decisions of recent years, from Mosley and Van Hannover to Google Spain and the Ryan Giggs case
Defines the key concepts of “celebrity” and “privacy”
Explains breach of confidence and the different classes of protected information
Covers misuse of private information
Analyses parliamentary privilege in the age of social media
Explains the regimes for protecting the anonymity of children of celebrities, and the European case law governing public pictures of celebrities
Shows how celebrities can use copyright as a privacy remedy
Covers the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the criminal offences under it
Explains how data protection can be used as a privacy remedy
Looks at the important case law emerging under the Defamation Act 2013