Covert recording in a workplace changing room

Supreme Court · Second Chamber (Penal) · 2020

What the Supreme Court considered and decided

The Supreme Court upheld a conviction for secretly recording female colleagues in a changing room. It considered the privacy offences, mitigating circumstances and compensation for non-financial harm.

What this helps explain

The protection of privacy reaches the work spaces intended for changing clothes, regardless of the existing professional relationship.

Editorial summary from the official note of the CGPJ. It describes this resolution, without certifying the subsequent evolution of the procedure. It should be read with the legislation applicable to its facts, reforms and subsequent case law.