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Employment Law Journal

Social Media: Twitter trouble

Taylor Wessing LLP | March 2015 #158
In light of recent case law, Stephanie Creed considers ways to minimise the risk of reputational damage to organisations from comments posted online by employees ‘Employees often fall into the trap of thinking that, when tweeting from a personal account and not mentioning their employer, those tweets are outside the scope of their employment obligations. …

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Cases Referenced

Cases in bold have further reading - click to view related articles.

  • Crisp v Apple Retail (UK) Ltd [2011] ET/1500258/11
  • Game Retail Ltd v Laws [2014] UKEAT 0188/14
  • Preece v JD Wetherspoons plc [2011] ET/2104806/10
  • Smith v Trafford Housing Trust [2012] EWHC 3221 (Ch)
  • Teggart v TeleTech UK Ltd [2012] NIIT 00704/11
  • Trasler v B&Q [2012] ET1200504/2012
  • Whitham v Club 24 Ltd t/a Ventura [2011] ET/1810462/10
  • Whitmar Publications Ltd v Gamage & ors [2013] EWHC 1881 (Ch)

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Stephanie Creed is an associate in the employment practice at Taylor Wessing

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