Blows smoke ring ... This is not to say that it cannot be used against you in a slander or harassment case, just that there isnt much legal precedence or case law for your lawyers to work with. Be good, do good and speak only good.<div>
<div><br></div><div>I like this description that implies that email has about the same digital behaviour of a birds nest and legal weight of a holiday post card. If you are threatened by email, feel free to sue those chaps in Nigeria who enjoy filling our mail boxes. If you have a great and burning love for legal disclaimers then scribble onto one the back of the next holiday picture you next pop into the post for your colleagues back at work. If you think the legal weight is important, pop it onto the top of all your emails.</div>
<div> <a href="http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/06/13/a-solution-for-company-e-mail-signatures/">http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/06/13/a-solution-for-company-e-mail-signatures/</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>Regards Roland</div>
<div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: this ramble is not to be taken as legal advise or even construed as purporting to be such..</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 18 August 2010 14:01, ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK@ivanhoe.com.au">Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK@ivanhoe.com.au</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> I’ve been asked to have a look at a friend’s email policy – the preamble into it got me a little flustered and I’m just trying to work out the legitimacy of the
statement “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Email carries the same legal status as a signed letter or memo.”
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I’ve had a look in the telecommunications act and the postal act but cannot find it. I’m wondering if anyone out there knows if this statement is pure smoke or not.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Damien</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
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