Chairman & Governors of Amwell View School v Dogherty [2006] UKEAT/0243/06/DA

Covert Recordings: What’s the secret?

Clandestine recordings of private discussions at workplace disciplinary and grievance hearings may be admissible in employment tribunal proceedings, report Sharon Tan and Paul McGrath ‘Technological advances have given rise to a spate of cases that have considered whether evidence obtained on a clandestine basis ought to be admissible in subsequent employment tribunal litigation.’ In an …

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Employee Surveillance: Who’s monitoring whom?

Jo Broadbent looks at what approach the tribunals are taking to employees’ new-found ability to gather evidence secretly on their smartphones and how employers should respond An employer should probably focus its efforts on minimising the risk of the evidence being created in the first place. Employee monitoring is generally understood to refer to a …

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