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09:31:04 on Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Chris Spray <[log in to unmask]> writes
>R v (1) ANDREW GLEN COLE (2) PAUL ANTHONY SLOCOMBE (2001) at Chichester Crown Court
> These two directors of a company whose employees had dishonestly
>obtained personal data were convicted because whilst the court accepted
>that the directors didn't know what the employees were doing the court
>held that they should have known. More a S61 offence(?), but in the
>right arena - the employees committed the S55 offence
So if an Inland Revenue employee is found to be doing an illegal fishing
expedition for (say) Council Tax Single Occupancy data, does the
Chancellor, or the IR Commissioners get to go to jail [/get
conditionally discharged]?
--
Roland Perry
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