The Private Investigator and the Right to Privacy

Authors

  • Elaine F. Geddes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/alr1635

Abstract

The author examines the law with respect to the status and powers of private investigators and reviews cases in both Canada and the United States involving the activities of private investigators. Possible remedies available against the private investigator, both in tort and criminal law, are reviewed, as well as American cases on the common law of invasion of privacy, Canadian cases under the various provincial Privacy Acts and possible remedies under the Charter of Rights. Privacy is the right of the individual to decide for himself how much of his life, his thoughts, emotions and the facts that are personal to him he will share with others.

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Published

1989-01-01

Issue

Vol 27, No 2

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