A Garden Wedding by any chance?

[yqt]

Maybe I phrased it wrongly-I'll try again.
If you are asked to leave the premises, that would be legally correct, and you would have to leave.
However, if you are asked to stop taking photos, there is no law around to stop you, and the most that can be done is to file a civil suit gainst you.

Regarding the points about leaving the premises, trespassing, public nuisance etc are also correct. In a sense, you can be stopped from taking photos through all these means. But the very act of pressing your shutter button, cannot be stopped.

N.B. If you take photos of a private estate from a public place (eg a road), the situation becomes even more complicated and as far as I can see, the only thing that can be brought against you is public nuisance charge (by the police).

Agreed with you on the above.

With-regards to shooting a private estate, I take it to mean a private condo, residential estate, well as far as I know, except for a few residential estate whose residents are high profile public fig, ie: MM Lee, all else are free game. The property management's rights extend only to within their estate. You can take one step outside of their estate and they can't stop you. Unless the building is protected by law from photography, I doubt the police will want to do anything other than just asking why you're shooting the building, if they do came at all.

Cheers

PS: I think we're OTing too much already so we better leave this to the proper thread when it comes up.

 

[yqt]

One more thing I forgot to add-you actually don't need to leave if security asks you to do so. The only people that have legal authority to evict you are 1. CISCO 2. SAF Personnel (If you are on SAF grounds) 3. Police.

Not here to go round picking a fight with anyone, but if you are a photographer, I think you should be clear on the laws regarding your trade. Admittedly, it is not going to help you very much if you should go round irritating people by taking pictures of them for no apparant reason, but I am just stating the clear facts here for people to know black from white. It's kind of a grey mess now. (I was in legal studies once)

I know it's OT but can't help it.....:sweatsm:

Usually the guards will ask you to leave failling which they will call the police to remove you. In the mean time they can just stand infront of your lens :devil::devil: ( I'm in my estate's management, still :bsmilie::bsmilie: )

 

[Dream Merchant]

YQT ... still??? :bigeyes: :bsmilie: :devil:

 

[yqt]

YQT ... still??? :bigeyes: :bsmilie: :devil:

My estate's management council lar, coming 7 years liow what to do? no one want to take over :dunno:

 

[chanjyj]

I know it's OT but can't help it.....:sweatsm:

Usually the guards will ask you to leave failling which they will call the police to remove you. In the mean time they can just stand infront of your lens :devil::devil: ( I'm in my estate's management, still :bsmilie::bsmilie: )

Lol.. I had a run in with MY estate management's guards.. made me really bad mood indeed.

I[/B ]called the police to chase them away instead. The guards just wanted to show their "power" (noin existant power, that is)