[Gllug] Legal precedent for email disclaimers

[Martyn Drake]

Not sure, to be honest with you, but at work we've decided to simply add the
legal disclaimer to the headers of our email rather than in the body and
this has satisified our insurance folk.  Nothing was ever said about WHERE
the disclaimer had to be ;)

Regards,

	Martyn

Tethys wrote on 27 May 2004 12:22:

> 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


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