They would have to either complain to the police or bring a personal action in
the courts. And the costs but they aren't that expensive!!
Taking your example you would have to consider whether the camera in the
garden accidentally caught the person on the sun bed or whether there was
evidence of deliberate and continuous viewing. And you would probably also
need to take account of gender. In a recent case the courts considered
that an offence of voyeurism takes place where observation of a private act
(e.g. on the sun bed in the back room) involves parts of the body for which
people would normally expect privacy; so an exposed male chest is not
considered the same as exposed female breasts.
Incidentally, as an aside, the 1361 Justice of the Peace Act (which is still on
the statute book because it contains the power to bind someone over to keep
the peace) originally provided for the locking up of eavesdroppers and Peeping
Toms! So who need DP!
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