Rachel McAthy reports: Leading judges today advised a parliamentary committee against trying to too “tightly” define areas of privacy law, suggesting instead that it “would be better to leave it to judges in the main”. Appearing before the joint committee on privacy and injunctions, Sir Nicholas Wall, president of the family division of the high…
Category: Laws
Is illegally obtained CCTV footage admissible in evidence in Ireland?
TJ McIntyre writes: […] There is a general rule in Irish law that illegally (not unconstitutionally) obtained evidence may be excluded at the discretion of the court. Yvonne Daly provides a very good summary of this rule in this article (PDF), where she points out that in practice this discretion is very seldom used to exclude evidence on the…
IL: State says electronic messages from council meetings are public records
A reader sends in this pro-transparency ruling in Illinois: City officials must turn over electronic correspondence council members send and receive during meetings, regardless of what kind of media or means they use to do so, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The legally binding opinion was sent to city officials and The News-Gazette…
NJ: Grieving mother wants law to protect privacy of accident victims
Nora Muchanic of WPVI reports that a distraught New Jersey mother is fighting for legislation that would spare others the anguish she experienced when a first responder uploaded crash photos of her daughter’s accident online before she even knew that her daughter had been in a fatal crash. Cathy Bates, 40, was killed in a…