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Woman Sacked for Dirty Divorce Tactics
A WOMAN who used Australian Federal Police databases to dig up dirt on her former husband during a bitter divorce has lost a claim for unfair dismissal.
Fair Work Australia heard the woman, who worked as a financial analyst for the AFP, also tried to rope colleagues into her battle against her former husband but was sacked in April last year after he hired a private investigator and complained to police.
She was found to have breached the AFP code of conduct after getting a co-worker to send her records on her former husband’s businesses, which she described as ”gold” and forwarded on to her mother.
Police also found two sexually inappropriate photos on her work computer, including an image of ”two men’s buttocks” which she described as ”jovial”.
Proof in Child Custody hearings – the significance of Email Forensics
I recently attended a hearing at the Federal Magistrates Court in assistance of one of the members of Fathers4Equality.
I don’t often write about the cases that we support, but in this case there was an interesting dispute over evidence, being an alleged email that was sent and read.
This dispute was of keen interest to me because in this day and age, email and text messages have become the primary source of ‘proof’ tabled in family law matters. This seems to be a suprise to many people in domestic abuse disputes and child custody matters, given that all sorts of bizarre, threatening and incriminating emails and text messages keep being sent, only to seriously bite the sender in the backside in Court.
In any case the father in this instance insisted that he sent an email to the mother on the day that the child was to be returned to her, advising her that the child was ill and that she may be returned late. The child was ultimately returned back to the mother a little late.
As the parents had a poor relationship, email correspondence was the standard way that they would communicate, so the fact that the father had alleged that he sent an email advising the mother of this event was not out of the ordinary.
The mother however claimed that there was no email. She alleged that this was all part of a pattern by the father of late deliveries, and that the ‘email’ story was a concoction made up as an excuse for Court.
Now this issue, as it so happens, was not further investigated by the Court, but had it been, it could have ended up being a key deciding issue leading to the credibility of both of the parties.
Had proper measures been taken by the father, for instance, he could have, assuming he was telling the truth, prooven that not only did he send the email, but that his ex-wife actually read the email. He could also have shown what time she read the email, for how long she read it, from what location and interenet account, and even from which computer.
As it should be clear in this instance, with a little preparation, the ex-wife could have been conclusively shown to have ‘lied’ in Court on this matter, had she in fact been untruthful.
I raise this story because time and time again I have cautioned separating parents to think carefully about the emails they send during the ‘difficult’ early periods of separation.
I also urge separated parents who correspond primarily via email to safeguard their correspondence by either BCCing a trusted friend, by using a Return Receipt facility if available in the email client, or ideally by using a professional email forensics service such as ReadNotify, which not only provides Court admissable proof that an email has been sent, but also when it has been read by the other party.
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Using certified messages and digital signatures, ReadNotify offers proof of when you sent a message and when and where it was opened.This service can also send messages that self-destruct after having been opened once, and make it difficult to copy or print the email contents.
If all this sounds a bit complicated, it is not. ReadNotify comes with various simple add-on tools that seamlessly ‘track’ emails with little effort from the sender.
- ReadNotify provides email tracking and proof of sending as well as reading.
- Readnotify records when, where and how long an email was read.
- Location, ISP and computer settings are also recorded, as well as which attachents or links are opened/clicked
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ReadNotify can also send messages that self-destruct after having been opened once.
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ReadNotify can make it difficult for the email recipient to copy or print the message contents.
- A Windows tool plugs into many programs and catches all outgoing mail seamlessly.
- ReadNotify integrates with Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail in Internet Explorer.
- You can also send a tracked email simply by adding “.readnotify.com” to the recipient’s address.
- You decide whether tracking is transparent to the recipient or “invisible”.
- “Ensured-receipt” messages are kept at ReadNotify servers and thus tracked under all circumstances.
- ReadNotify uses PGP signatures including time-stamps to prove sending and opening of emails.
- In addition to the recipient’s location, ReadNotify can track forwarded emails and attachments.
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Husband faces jail for reading wife’s email
Man faces prison for reading wife's email.
Prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged on to a laptop in the home he shared with his wife Clara Walker.
Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair. He is now facing trial.
His wife filed for divorce after the incident.
Legal experts said it was the first time the statute had been used in a domestic case and it might be hard to prove.
“It’s going to be interesting because there are no clear legal answers here,” lawyer and electronic privacy expert Frederick Lane said.
“The fact the two still were living together and that Leon Walker had routine access to the computer may help him. I would guess there is enough grey area to suggest that she could not have an absolute expectation of privacy.”
About 45 per cent of divorce cases involve email snooping.
