The use of email continues to increase year on year, and it has brought with it a plethora of legal issues. This book focuses on the legal aspects of email use. It sets out the legal and technical background to law and then explores specific areas in which significant issues have arisen, such as privacy, defamation and copyright.

1. A complex, misunderstood character - the history and technology of email; 2. Legislating for confidence - laws to encourage acceptance, take-up and use; 3. Communications privacy - protecting rights and protecting society; 4. Substantive law issues - new media, old problems; 5. Access regimes - opening Pandora's Box; 6. Crime and law enforcement - detectives and data analysts; 7. Civil litigation - e-disclosure and email as evidence; 8. Jurisdiction and governing law - from A to B and across the sea; 9. Regulatory law - modifying behaviour and curing imperfections; 10. Organisational compliance - intelligent v. stupid processing.