In December 2012, the Australian Federal Parliament passed the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (CTH). The Amendment Act contains the first (of two) stages of long-anticipated reforms in response to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) report, For Your...

In Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457 the House of Lords approved of protecting privacy interests through incrementally developing the existing action for breach of confidence. Lord Hoffmann suggested that this modified cause of action, instead of being based upon the duty of...

The award of every judicial remedy, whether in the nature of declaration, coercion, compensation, restitution or punishment, can be said, in general terms, to vindicate the legal rights of the plaintiff. At the same time, remedies awarded in civil actions sometimes serve a more pronounced...

This conclusionary chapter summarises and highlights themes that are emerging from the chapters collated in the book Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023). This collection of essays provides a rich array of materials demonstrating the...