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Product DescriptionThis set is a completely updated (to November 2003) specialist legal practitioners' guide to the law on privacy and the media. It considers the rules applicable to disclosure of personal information by journalists and broadcasters, the remedies available to individuals whose privacy has beenunjustifiably infringed and the principles on which such protection is based. Cases analysed includeCampbell v MGN,Peck v UK,D v L andCream Holdings v Banerjee.The Law of Privacy and the Media is essential reading for all those who act for or against the media, as well as those with a generalinterest in the subject.Review`Review from previous edition Review of main work: Primarily intended as a practitioner's guide to the law, but it includes a consideration of comparative and international jurisprudence, as well as leading academic writing on the subject, in order to elaborate the principles upon whichprivacy rights are based... the nearly 800 pages of the book cover surely everything readers ever wanted to know about privacy.'Media LawyerAbout the AuthorSirMichael Tugendhat was educated at Ampleforth College, at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, where he was a scholar and read Classics and Philosophy, at Yale University, on a Henry Fellowship, and at the Hague Academy of International Law, at both of which he studied International Law. He isJudge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder of the Crown Court and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He trained in Mediation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva and acts as arbitrator in ICC and other arbitrations. He is a Fellow ofthe Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of London, for which he acted as Chair of the Civil Law Working Party on Corruption in 1999. Michael Tugendhat is married with four sons.Iain Christie was educated at Plymouth College and Hatfield College Durham where he read law. He was called tothe Bar (Inner Temple) in 1989 and in 1991 admitted to the bar of the High Court of Australia. Between 1992 and 2000 he was an assistant legal adviser, HM Diplomatic Service in which capacity he acted for the British Government as agent in proceedings before the European Commission and Court ofHuman Rights and was a member of the Bill team that drafted the Human Rights Act 1998. He is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and research student at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is also a member of the editorial board of the European HumanRights Law Review and a member of the board of management of the Durham University Human Rights Centre. Iain Christie is married with two daughters.