Balancing Principles and A Fortiori Reasoning

Lopes, Pedro Moniz

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“…During the weighing, the judge or other balancing 25 Grégoire C. N. Webber, supra note 11: 180. 26 Panagiotis Souliotis, supra note 2: 7. 27 Ibid.…”

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“…"However, ambiguity surrounds the meaning and the scope of the notion of public interest mainly because that there are many different theories about its exact concept." 26 A contributing factor for the vagueness of the concept is also the false impression that the public interest is the interest of the majority. All this leads to the same conclusions about the balancing method and its application in practice.…”

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Balancing Personal Data Protection with Other Human Rights and Public Interest: Between Theory and Practice

Justickis

2020

Baltic Journal of Law &Amp; Politics

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The role of balancing in the development and application of European data protection is enormous. European courts widely use it; it is the basis for harmonization of pan-European and national laws, plays a crucial role in everyday data protection. Therefore, the correctness of a huge number of critical decisions in the EU depends on the perfection of the balancing method. However, the real ability of the balancing method to cope with this mission has been subjected to intense criticism in the scientific literature. This criticism has highlighted its imperfections and casts doubt on its suitability to optimize the relation between competing rights. Paradoxically, the everyday practice of balancing tends to ignore this criticism. The limitations of the balancing method are typically not discussed and are not taken into account when considering legal cases and solving practical issues. Thus, it is tacitly assumed that the shortcomings and limitations of the balancing method, which the criticism points out, are irrelevant when making real-life decisions. This article discusses the scope of this phenomenon, its manifestations, and its impact on the quality of data protection decisions based on the balancing method:sub-optimality of these decisions, their opacity, public dissatisfaction with the legal regulation, its instability and low authority The ways of bridging the gap between the practice of balancing and science and broader consideration by the practice of the shortcomings of the balancing method identified during scientific discussions are considered.

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“…During the weighing, the judge or other balancing 25 Grégoire C. N. Webber, supra note 11: 180. 26 Panagiotis Souliotis, supra note 2: 7. 27 Ibid.…”

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