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"Arbitral Jurisdiction over Tortious Privacy Violations"

Jurisdiction: - British Columbia

"Arbitral Jurisdiction over Tortious Privacy Violations" (June 18, 2010) is the title of the paper that Pamela R. Costanzo and Stephanie T. Mayor, of Black Gropper in Vancouver, presented at the Labour Relations Conference - 2010.

The conference was put on by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. The paper:

...examines whether an arbitrator appointed under the Labour Relations
Code
would have jurisdiction to apply the BC Privacy Act, or award a remedy
under it. It examines the historical development of the arbitral jurisprudence
on breach of privacy. It also considers whether a common law tort of breach of
privacy exists, and what alternative torts, and remedies, are available to
plaintiffs who have experienced a breach of privacy in the context of
employment.