Privacy: Understand the legal pitfalls of monitoring remote employees

Keystone Law | October 2022 #234
Rachel Tozer looks at the issues employers need to work through to help them decide whether electronic staff surveillance is justified An employer needs to be careful about treating one group of employees (such as remote workers) differently to another group (such as office-based workers). Recent reports that the Cabinet Office hopes to persuade civil …

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Wills: Sealing royal wills – justifiable secrecy?

St John’s Chambers (Chambers of Matthew White) | December 2021 #229
Natasha Dzameh reviews the High Court’s decision to seal the will of His late Royal Highness Prince Philip In determining whether the will and other probate documents would be open to inspection, the public interest issue would likely be determinative. The sovereign’s will need not be proved by a grant of probate. However this is …

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Media access: Behind closed doors

Russell-Cooke LLP | September 2021 #206
Jemma Pollock highlights issues of transparency versus privacy in the family courts following the judgment in Barclay v Barclay The courts have discretion to shift the balance as to privacy in favour of transparency, and recent case law evidences a trend toward that approach, particularly in cases such as Barclay where there are issues of …

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