privacy
privacy the tort or delict (unrecognised formally in the UK) of infring- ing a person's right to be left alone. Although the notion of privacy is protected by law in many systems in the continental Europe and in the USA, there is no recognised tort in English law of invasion of privacy. Scotland arguably recognises a verbal injury called CONVICI- UM, which makes it a delict to bring a person into public ridicule and hatred, but this in itself would not cover a polite and neutral expo-309
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sure of personal details. Scots law also recognises interference with liberty. The Human Rights Act 1998 provides a right to respect for a person's private and family life. See DEFAMATION and CONFIDENCE.
- in flagrante delicto
- information
- inheritance tax
- inhibition
- initial writ
- injunction
- injuria
- injurious falsehood
- Inland Revenue
- in lieu
- in limine
- in loco parentis
- in meditatione fugae
- inn
- Inner House
- Inner Temple
- innominate
- Inns of Court
- innuendo
- in pari delicto potior est conditio possidentis
- in pari materia
- in personam
- inquest
- inquisitorial procedure
- in re