Catalogue description Committee on Privacy: Evidence and Papers

The Committee on Privacy was appointed by the Home Secretary, The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan M.P., the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, and the Scottish Secretary, the Rt. Hon. William Ross M.P., on 13 May 1970. The appointment of the Committee followed the withdrawal by its sponsor, Mr Brian Walden M.P., of a Right of Privacy Bill based on a draft published in a report on Privacy and the Law by a committee of 'Justice', the British section of the International Commission of Jurists. The Chairman of the Committee on Privacy was the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Younger, and its terms of reference were: to consider whether legislation is needed to give further protection to the individual citizen and to commercial and industrial interests against intrusions into privacy by private persons and organisations, or by companies, and to make recommendations.