Milky Way and Andromeda: Privacy, Confidentiality and Freedom of Expression

• Main Author: WEI, George S. S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Privacy Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/880; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1879/viewcontent/GeorgeWeiSzeShunMilkywaya.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article examines the extent to which the law of confidence protects private personal information. In the UK, much of the impetus for greater protection comes from the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. How privacy and freedom of expression are to be balanced either within the law of confidence or through the development of a new tort of privacy is a question that has given rise to much discussion in the courts and elsewhere. Developments in this area are the focus of this article together with the issue as to whether similar developments might take place in Singapore.