The bad news is that there may also be those folks next door who can easily turn your peaceful existence into a living nightmare. Wait, didn’t your realtor/landlord assure you multiple times that you’d be surrounded by lovely neighbors?Īlso, in a classic case of bad luck, problem neighbors may have recently moved into the vacant house next door or the top-floor apartment in your residential building before you have the chance to realize what’s happening.Īs time goes by, some bad neighbors may turn out to be not as bad as you thought they were in the very beginning – that’s the good news. You just moved to a new neighborhood in a new town or city, and there they are – the Neighbors from Hell. In fact, it may happen to anyone and it’s not necessarily related to how good or bad a specific neighborhood is. Oftentimes, the unfortunate event can come about suddenly, and without any due warning too. It comes as the government last week confirmed it was prepared to support a push to criminalise revenge porn, the distribution of intimate and pornographic images without consent.It can be the opposite of fun to have bad neighbors. The Sunday Telegraph reported in July the NSW Law and Justice committee, which is accepting submissions on the topic until today, is also investigating the need to introduce tough sentences for people who post revenge porn online. “It could be that local courts or land and environment courts could be given jurisdiction to hear disputes between neighbours about this kind of thing,” she said.
Professor McDonald said the only way to stop it under current laws was to launch expensive and lengthy legal action in the Supreme Court by claiming it was a nuisance. “Whenever I walk to my letterbox I have to hide under an umbrella., and when I do some gardening I have to hide under the umbrella. She said NSW surveillance laws only prohibited filming someone’s “activity” if the camera or device was on their property, but does not prohibit the act if the device is on the user’s property. “We got a lot of submissions about this, in fact we almost got more submissions on this single issue than any other single issue, apart from revenge porn,” Professor McDonald said. Sydney University Law Professor Barbara McDonald, who chaired the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into serious invasions of privacy last year, said the committee found the issue was “very common”. WILLIAM TYRRELL’S PARENTS: ‘WE ARE NOT THE STORY, HE IS’ “One on my driveway, one at my lounge window and one at my back staircase and backyard.”ĬALL FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE MORE SAY IN CUSTODY DISPUTES “What is bothering me and causing me a tremendous amount of stress and depression, is the fact that three of the cameras are pointed at my property,” the neighbour wrote. “They are clearly a public nuisance, and they need to be stopped.”Īnother resident, who also remained anonymous, wrote to the committee complaining of the “neighbours from hell”, who installed cameras with video and audio pointed at their property. Two cameras are pointing directly at my house and driveway, and they also have three cameras pointing at my neighbour on the other side of their house, and at the neighbour across the road,” the neighbour wrote. “Quite recently they had security cameras installed professionally, seven to be exact. The resident said they had resorted to gardening with an umbrella to protect their privacy in their own yard. One submission was written by an irate neighbour, who did not want to be identified, who said his neighbour had installed seven CCTV cameras, including five pointed directly into neighbouring properties. NSW local member for Lake Macquarie Greg Piper has made a submission to the inquiry on behalf of constituents who had made complaints about neighbours’ CCTV cameras. The Law and Justice Committee is conducting the inquiry to investigate ways to prevent privacy breaches, including the use of surveillance. PEOPLE are using security cameras to spy on their neighbours without fear of punishment because of a legal loophole making authorities powerless to stop them.Ī NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Serious Invasions of Privacy has received submissions outlining a gap in the law allowing people to point CCTV cameras into neighbours’ yards and windows, as long as the camera is on their own property.
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