Yes - I agree.
D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Charlesworth [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 February 2002 16:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: email monitoring
>
> I'm not how that exactly relates to the provisions of the RIPA - surely
> that is a broader point of administrative law - that two individuals
> subject to the same administrative disciplinary procedure for the same
> action should be treated in the same way. In such circumstances, I could
> see the disciplined employee making a good case for their having been
> treated unfairly, but that would be down to the Council having a confused
> communications (and disciplinary?) policy, not to any aspect of the RIPA.
>
> --On 20 February 2002 16:15 +0000 "Broom, Doreen"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > That may be the case but with some organisations such as a Council, some
> > Sections/Departments allow personal use and some don't. Therefore, if
> > someone is investigated - a disciplinary hearing is then set up -
> employee
> > receives written warning as a result of disciplinary hearing. What
> > happens when another Section/Department decides not to take any further
> > action after investigation - to save any argument - it was the same type
> > of mis-use of e-mail.
> > Has the person who received a written warning a right to sue?
> > D
>
> Andrew Charlesworth
> Senior Lecturer in IT Law
> Director, Information Law and Technology Unit
> University of Hull Law School
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