Balancing the Right to Privacy and Freedom of Expression: Re-evaluating Hosking v Runting in the Light of Recent Developments in English Privacy Law
This paper examines the potential impact of recent English privacy jurisprudence on the New Zealand tort of privacy. The paper contrasts the New Zealand Court of Appeal’s aversion towards an over-expansive privacy right expressed in Hosking v Runting with an increasing readiness to override freedom of expression in favour of privacy interests in the United Kingdom. Three central conflicts in the courts’ reasoning are addressed in detail, namely privacy’s relationship with public places, individuals with public profiles and mediums of publication. While developments in English privacy law highlight reasoning flaws and theoretical shortcomings in Hosking, the increasing influence European jurisprudence on English law may nevertheless justify some divergence in the two jurisdictions’ balancing of privacy and freedom of expression.
Media freedom under the Human Rights Act.
1. Introduction PART 1 - ARTICLE 10 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 2. Strasbourg, media freedom and proportionality: Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights 3. The Human Rights Act in the context of media freedom PART 2 - THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND MEDIA FREEDOM FAIRNESS OF PROCEEDINGS THE OPEN JUSTICE PRINCIPLE 4. Introduction: free speech and fair trial values 5. Free speech and fair trials: reporting restrictions 6. Free speech and fair trials: prejudicing proceedings 7. Protection of journalistic sources PART 3 - MEDIA FREEDOM, OFFENCE, MORALITY AND HATE SPEECH 8. Pornography: hate speech? 9. Blasphemy, racial hatred and religious hatred 10. Censorship and regulation of the visual media on the ground of avoiding offence: general issues of law and policy 11. Regulating broadcasting on grounds of avoiding offence 12. Regulation of films, videos and the internet PART 4 - MEDIA FREEDOM AND THE PROTECTION OF PRIVACY 13. Privacy and freedom of expression: Strasbourg jurisprudence in UK courts 14. Protection for privacy against the press in the Human Rights Act era 15. Defences to the tort of misuse of private information and remedies 16. Restrictions protecting the private and family life of children 17. Regulation of the broadcast media and the protection of privacy PART 5 - COPYRIGHT AND MEDIA FREEDOM 18. Copyright law, Article 10 and media freedom PART 6 - MEDIA FREEDOM AND POLITICAL SPEECH 19, Official secrecy, access to information and the media 20. Freedom of political expression in broadcasting 21. Defamation and political speech 22. Conclusions
Research on Control and Planning of Soft-Wing UAV for Haze Removal
The existence of fog and haze has caused great pollution to the environment. The research of removing haze is a hot topic in recent years. In this paper, a special haze removal algorithm based on Soft- Wing UAVis proposed. In this algorithm, two track control strategies are designed based on the Soft-Wing UAV model transfer function. A SIMULINK platform based mathematical model of Soft-Wing UAV is built to testified effectiveness of the two track control strategies. An autonomous ergodic-planning algorithm with greedy strategy and foldback algorithm for Soft-Wing UAV is designed. Within the algorithm, the haze regional has been modelled, the cost matrix is constructed, and the planning and ergodic strategy is proposed. Finally, the experimental results validates the reliability of the algorithm in the application of haze removal with the proposed evaluation Index.