“Britain’s leading judges are calling for an electronic revolution in the courts, arguing that enhanced use of technology would solidify London’s High Court as one of the best in the world.”
The Lawyer, 20th October 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“University workers must release information from personal webmail accounts on request if it is related to public business, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“David Cameron and his most senior aides face being forced to open up their private email accounts to see if they contain details of sensitive government business hidden from the Civil Service. A meeting of permanent secretaries yesterday discussed ordering a ‘trawl’ of personal email accounts held by Mr Cameron, senior aides and government ministers to see if they contain messages which fall within the remit of the Freedom of Information Act, The Independent understands.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Michael Gove and his closest advisers are under scrutiny after Government business was apparently conducted using personal email accounts.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The information commissioner has ended his investigation into News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers following ‘assurances’ it did not lose a tranche of emails which could contain evidence its journalists were involved in hacking phones.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has insisted he was right to take out a super-injunction after private e-mails were hacked and passed to newspapers.”
BBC News, 14th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Emails and text messages sent by a former editor of The Sun and all its employees could be searched under an order sought by lawyers for the Premier League footballer.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Economically speaking, the law is generally thought to be a counter-cyclical profession.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th May 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Organisations that make unwanted marketing phone calls or send spam emails to consumers could face fines of up to £500,000, the Government has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Law Society has called on criminal law firms to embrace electronic working, as the Crown Prosecution Services seeks to become completely digital by April 2012.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Department for Transport (DfT) is facing an ‘intensive investigation’ over claims e-mails about the expansion of Heathrow Airport were deleted.”
BBC News, 7th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A university unit involved in a row over stolen e-mails on climate research breached rules by withholding data, the Information Commissioner’s Office says.”
BBC News, 28th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Legislation for a £2bn Home Office surveillance project to track details of everybody’s email, mobile phone, text and internet use has been put on hold after a consultation raised concerns over its technical feasibility, costs and privacy safeguards.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The founder of a conferencing business breached his former employer’s database rights and misappropriated its confidential information, the High Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A series of emails and phone calls were not sufficient to establish a contract, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The communications did not contain enough information or the formal qualities necessary for a contract to have been made, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“An employee’s dismissal was unfair because the email inviting him to the first in a series of disciplinary meetings did not specifically say that the process might result in dismissal, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th February 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Allianz Insurance Co – Egypt v Aigaion Insurance Co SA
Court of Appeal
“In the context of a reinsurance contract, where a gap opened up between what had been previously quoted and agreed and what had been defined on the slip as the determinative contract, an e-mail reply by the defendant reinsurer’s representative was to be construed as an acceptance, which gave priority to the slip, rather than a counter-offer, which would have given priority to previous stipulations.”
The Times, 20th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Rules forcing internet companies to keep details of every e-mail sent in the UK are a waste of money and an attack on civil liberties, say critics.”
BBC News, 9th January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers are using email to send sensitive information even though they think it is one of the least safe ways of communicating, according to a recent poll.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th October 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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