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The Court of Ap­peal has raised the pos­si­bil­i­ty that cit­i­zens could even­tu­al­ly pur­sue law­suits against oth­er in­di­vid­u­als for breach­es of pri­va­cy, even as it ruled that such claims are not cur­rent­ly recog­nised un­der Trinidad and To­ba­go law.

Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Maria Wil­son and James Aboud ad­dressed the is­sue while hear­ing an ap­peal by two teenagers who were dis­cov­ered locked in a toi­let at a shop­ping mall in Bar­rack­pore be­fore school and con­front­ed by the prop­er­ty own­er, Kr­ishen Bas­deo.

The pan­el ruled that a High Court judge had been wrong to dis­miss as­pects of the teenagers’ claims in­volv­ing false im­pris­on­ment and bat­tery. How­ev­er, the judges found that the teenagers could not pur­sue a tort claim for breach of pri­va­cy.