TV3 Network Services Ltd v Broadcasting Standards Authority - [1995] 2 NZLR 720

Communications — Telecommunications — Television — Broadcasting Standards Authority — Privacy principles issued by authority — Television programme revealing that a person had been an incest victim — Surreptitious filming of interview on private property — Whether the authority had erred in the adoption of the privacy principles — Whether the broadcaster had breached the privacy principles relating to disclosure of private facts and prying — Whether the defence of public interest applied — Whether the broadcaster's actions were excused by the requirement to give balance to the programme — Broadcasting Act 1989, ss 4(1)(c) and 21(1)(b) and (d).

Tort — Trespass — Implied licence to enter private property — Reporter entering property to obtain television interview — Reporter knowing that occupier would not give consent to interview — Television crew filming encounter between reporter and occupier and recording statements of occupier without her being aware of it — Whether actions of reporter outside ambit of implied licence.