( 51 ) IT was thus contended that decency or morality is specifically provided for in the said article and in fact morality was a much wider term than decency. Similarly defamation was also provided for in the said Article and there could be no public interest in making defamatory statements. Balance between the protection of personal information and the competing right to free speech must be made. Such personal information, according to the learned counsel for the respondent, would include those facts, communications or opinions that relate to the individual and which are of such a nature that it would be reasonable to accept and regard them as intimate or sensitive and, therefore, to want to withhold or at least to restrict their collection, use or circulation. The learned counsel stated that words used in the extract such. as "amorous" have a very negative meaning and referred to the commentary of Webster's New Dictionary and Thesaurus where "amorous" is defined "fond of making love; full of love; of sexual life". Similarly in the shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition volume 1 "amorous" has been defined as "habitually inclined to love; and have or pertaining to (sexual)

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