Common law privacy rights: Ontario Court of Appeal recognizes invasion of privacy tort *

Canada - January 27 2012
The Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32, has explicitly recognized a common law tort for invasion of a person`s right to privacy, specifically the right to seclusion of one’s private affairs from the public eye – a legal issue that remains uncertain in some parts of Canada.