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Peck v United Kingdom, Judgment, Merits and Just Satisfaction, App No 44647/98, ECHR 2003-I, [2003] ECHR 44, (2003) 36 EHRR 41, (2003) 36 EHRR 719, [2003] EMLR 15, (2003) 13 BHRC 669, IHRL 3168 (ECHR 2003), 28th January 2003, European Court of Human Rights [ECHR]

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Whether the scope of the right to a private life under Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (‘European Convention on Human Rights’, ‘ECHR’) extended to public places.

Whether the showing on television without the applicant’s consent of CCTV footage of his attempted suicide was a disproportionate and unjustified interference with the right to respect for private life guaranteed under Article 8 of the ECHR.

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