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Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd

(2001) 208 CLR 199
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year2001
StatusBinding authority

Summary

High Court of Australia held there is no general tort of privacy in Australian law, and refused an interlocutory injunction to restrain broadcast of footage obtained by trespassers.

Key Principle

privacy; breach of confidence; trespassers filming brushtail possum processing; interlocutory injunction; no tort of privacy

Area of Law

tort

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