Right to Privacy: Admissible in criminal matters or can be violated?
Saint-Ayisi Samuel In criminal matters, the fundamental human right, as some say, is curtailed immediately someone is charged by the police. It is plausible to indicate that, the principle of the criminal justice in Ghana makes provision for fair trial, fair hearing (audi alteram partem), right to privacy and even, exercise of fundamental human rights enshrined in Chapter five (5) of the 1992 Constitution. Notably, the right to privacy is a fundamental human right hence, admissible in criminal matters even with the accused. Privacy is the right of individual to be protected against the intrusion into his/her personal life; or affairs; or his/her family by direct physical means or by publication of information. However, in most criminal charges and criminal prosecutions, some State Authorities have opposed to these suggestions because they believe that laws intended to protect accused persons of their privacy could be used to prevent the State prosecutors from reve...