TITLE:
Protection of Individual Privacy under the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Systems: Legal and Criminal Aspects
AUTHORS:
Saleh Sharari, Raed S. A. Faqir
KEYWORDS:
Global Legal Systems, Privacy Forms and Scope, Legal and Criminal Protection
JOURNAL NAME:
Beijing Law Review,
Vol.5 No.3,
September
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: The
present study tries to explain the legal position of privacy in the legal
practices of two global different legal cultures: The Continental and Anglo-Saxon
systems. This study aims at making sufficient explanation as regard the
historical development of the concept and its terminology, and to define the
scope of privacy protection and its several forms. Moreover, the study aims to
undercover the legal treatment with privacy issues as related to legal protection
of dwelling houses, private places, photography, personal communication and
conversations, as well as the professional secret’s safeguards under both civil
and common law systems.