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Thread #148274   Message #3442735
Posted By: Jack Campin
26-Nov-12 - 07:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: PMs - private?
Subject: RE: BS: PMs - private?
US and UK laws on confidentiality differ.

If anybody wanted to get litigious, I suppose the laws of the state of Pennsylvania would decide the issue.


In the UK material that a reasonable recipient would consider confidential (or expressed to be confidential), not in the public domain, and disclosed in circumstances of confidentiality (in fairly general terms) will be protected as confidential.

I doubt whether an insulting or threatening PM would be regarded by a court as something "a reasonable recipient would consider confidential".