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The New Zealand Court of Appeal in a bare majority in Hosking v Runting accepted that there was a tort of privacy in New Zealand. The tort was affirmed as protection in this area was needed and the breach of confidence tort was not suitable to cover situations involving privacy. [ 22 ]
Writing for the Auckland Law School, Nikki Chamberlain and Stephen Penk say that the Act is outdated, saying that "our new Act does not adequately address the risks of the 21st century" and "there is a real need to develop the law around misappropriation of personality to protect an individual's right to identity privacy", and that the Act does ...
The Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) is an act of the New Zealand Parliament which creates a public right to access information held by government bodies. It is New Zealand's primary freedom of information law and has become an important part of New Zealand's constitutional framework.
Many of the changes are based on recommendations from the New Zealand Law Commission's 2011 review of New Zealand's privacy laws. List of privacy commissioners [ edit ]
A significant difference is that requests under LGOIMA can be made by "any person", rather than New Zealand citizens or residents. [1] As with the OIA, decisions made under the Act can be appealed to the Ombudsman, [2] and there is immunity from civil and criminal proceedings for good faith decisions to release information under the Act. [3]
New Zealanders can expect tax cuts, more police on the streets and less government bureaucracy, according to the three leaders who signed an agreement Friday to form a new government. The ...
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