Large Percentage of Emails Found Unusable in Court Cases

Janie Davies reports in last week's issue of Computing Magazine that less than one in four UK businesses are confident that they could rely on email as legal evidence in the event of a harassment or unlawful dismissal lawsuit. While 44 percent said they could not prove whether their emails had been tampered with, 35 percent could not even detect whether or not changes had been made, says a survey by research group Vanson Bourne on behalf of archiving and compliance supplier Forensic and Compliance. Financial services organizations are only slightly better prepared, with at least 45 percent still unable to prove interference with emails, compared with 58 percent of retail, distribution and transport groups.