[Year 12 IT Apps] Emails as a legal document

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.

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.

http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/06/13/a-solution-for-company-e-mail-signatures/

Regards Roland

Disclaimer: this ramble is not to be taken as legal advise or even construed
as purporting to be such..

On 18 August 2010 14:01, ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien <
Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi folks,
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>             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 “Email carries the same legal status as a
> signed letter or memo.” 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.
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> Thanks
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> Damien
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> *Damien Atkinson-Buck*
> Member of Academic Staff (Secondary)
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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