[Gllug] Legal precedent for email disclaimers

Brian Teeman brian at uklinux.net
Thu May 27 11:27:47 UTC 2004


On Thu, 27 May 2004, Tethys wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know of any legal precent for the validity or otherwise of
> email disclaimers? I'm not looking for the opinion of laymen here -- I've
> already tried that approach, and the legal people aren't having any of it,
> and without anything to back up my position, future email from me may well
> have 27 billion lines of legal boilerplate attached, a situation I'd rather
> avoid...
> 
> I'm looking for specific cases that have gone before a judge in a UK court,
> so I can point the them and say "In Foo vs Bar, the judge said XYZ".
> 
> Yes, I"m already aware of the Sprecher Grier Halberstam site.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tet
> 

Not an exact answer but IIRC the only case law is that regarding FAX 
disclaimers. I would point your search in that direction

Regards

Brian

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