LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: False Statement, Publication Ban, Voyeurism
29 Dec 2016
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There is no tort for invasion of privacy. Crime of voyeurism: secretly observing or recording a person in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy . Bedrooms are debatable because people caught on camera may not like it but the person who owns the room could say that they can do what they want because it is their room. Publication ban: the privacy of the victim is kept while the identity of the accused is not private. The strange magic in numbers; when a group of people go against the plaintiff. Threat to break duty in tort, contract or crime. Defendant intended to cause loss or damage. Without a loss there is no real tort so the plaintiff must prove to have a loss. Defamation can be both slander (spoken word) or liable (written word) Mere insult you are not liable for a mere insult because it must cause some damage to you.
