Podcast: WM Morrison Supermarket plc (Appellant) v Various Claimants (Respondents) [2020] UKSC12
WM Morrison Supermarket plc (Appellant) v Various Claimants (Respondents) [2020] UKSC12
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WM Morrison Supermarkets plc (Appellant) v Various Claimants (Respondents) [2020] UKSC12
The Supreme Court has overturned the Court of Appeal decision in Various Claimants v WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc [2018] EWHC Civ 2339 finding the appellant (“Morrisons”) not vicariously liable for the illegal acts of a rogue employee. It was a unanimous decision. The Supreme Court judgment is available here. The Supreme Court considered: 1. Whether […]
Employee Privacy, Surveillance and the European Court of Human Rights
Employee Computer Files The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that an employer may ‘freely consult’ an employee’s computer file that is not private, so long as the company’s IT charter makes a provision to do so. In Libert v France (Application No 588/13), an employee of SNCF (France’s national railway company) was […]
Various Claimants v WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC [2017] EWHC 3113 (QB): A Summary
The Facts On 12 January 2014, an employee of the Defendant “Morrisons” posted a file containing the personal details of almost 100,000 colleagues on the Internet. Mr Andrew Skelton, a senior IT Auditor at Morrisons, was later charged and convicted under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998 […]
MONITORING EMPLOYEES AND ARTICLE 8 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
There has been an important judgment in the area of employee privacy and monitoring at work. At the end of the summer, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) considered the judgment of the Fourth Section in Barbulescu v Romania (application 61496/08). Mr Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu had been asked by his […]
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