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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822001303321

Autore

Cremer Hans-Joachim

Titolo

Human rights and the protection of privacy in tort law : a comparison between English and German law / / Hans-Joachim Cremer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-91396-3

1-282-91279-8

9786612912795

0-203-84357-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

Disciplina

342.730858

Soggetti

Human rights - England

Human rights - Germany

International and municipal law - England

International and municipal law - Germany

Privacy, Right of - England

Privacy, Right of - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Aspects of comparison and the European Convention on Human Rights in the context of German law; Chapter 2 The European Court of Human Rights' Caroline von Hannover judgment and its reverberations; Chapter 3 Drittwirkung under the ECHR: Human rights obligation of state authorities and their influence on judicial decisions in private law disputes; Chapter 4 Drittwirkung of constitutionally guaranteed basic rights in the German legal order; Chapter 5 Conclusions; Addendum

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between



private individuals. Article 8 of the ECHR has thus been accorded mittelbare Drittwirkung or indirect 'third-party' effect in private law relationships.The German law of privacy, centring on the ""allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht"", has quite a long history, and the influence of the European Court of Human Rights' int