"DISSERTATION TITLE: PRIVACY CHAPTER 1: CONFIDENCE AND PRIVACY (1) Is there a tort of privacy? (2) Analysing the elements of the potential tort (3) The private law tort of invasion of privacy in other jurisdictions. (4) Proposals for a new tort (5) Defining the new tort. (6) Breach of Confidence (7) Which types of activities or information constitute Private Life? CHAPTER 2: THE IMPACT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT (1) Media law, Privacy and Human Rights (2) Human Rights, Privacy and recent cases CHAPTER 3: HOW EFFECTIVE ARE MEDIA REGULATORS? (1) How extensively is privacy protected? (2) The Regulatory Codes (i) The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) (ii) Private places (iii) Procedural drawbacks of the PCC (3) TV and Radio (i) The Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) (ii) Procedural drawbacks of the BSC (iii) The Independent Television Commission (ITC) and the Radio Authority (iv) OFCOM (v) Survey (vi) Is there a need for reform? CONCLUSION APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY"

Similar to the rest of the Convention, Article 8 is interested in providing guarantees against the activities of the government or other public bodies. But the European Court has developed an idea that in some respects the Convention puts a positive obligation on the member states to make provision in their laws for other rights as against the government or as against other private bodies or individuals. This notion of positive obligation has been primarily used in the context of Article 8. The issue concerning protection of privacy has been raised on several occasions on applications from the U.K. However, none have yet gone beyond the admissibility stage and on each occasion the Commission found that other remedies could satisfy any requirement under the convention. Relatively recently the Commission held that the developing law of breach of confidence could well satisfy …(short extract)