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Warning over email libels as lecturer settles historic case

  • 18-05-2010 07:31PM
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    Email context can hold the same water in court as a written letter.

    "Employese who defame their colleagues via email risk a criminal prosecution in the wake of the settlement of a landmark case. In the first action of its kind in Ireland, a college lecturer obtained an apology from two fellow academics following an email that impugned his professional reputation. Last night, solicitor and law lecturer TJ McIntyre said there was no difference between defaming a person by email and by a letter"


    More: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/warning-over-email-libels-as-lecturer-settles-historic-case-2181240.html

    The old saying goes "never put it in writing". :p


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