Legal requirements for business emails

[Banzai_Joe]

Hi all,
may i point you to this.
We adhered to this a few years back, but now we are changing the design of our mail stationery and having looked around, most of the emails we receive from companies, including solicitors etc DO NOT have what that link states you 'should' have on their business emails.
My MD wants to get rid too as it makes email footers too long.

Does anyone know if the law has changed since 2007 or do you think companies (even Solicitors who should know the law) are just flouting the law?

Advice appreciated, thanks.

 

[kae2]

http://www.out-law.com/page-5536

That's an updated article on the matter. Interesting reading, fortunately not something I have to worry about for my personal business due to being a sole trader.

 

[MrMoonX]

i know at work the MoJ put an essay on the bottom of everything I send

 

[Banzai_Joe]

Thanks kae2, looks like the law still exists, and that maybe companies are flaunting it at their own peril.

 

[Abraham]

It's literally a single line that's required, how does that make the footer too long?

 

[Banzai_Joe]

It's literally a single line that's required, how does that make the footer too long?

Huh?
You're required as a business to have your company details, reg no. reg. address.
Consider that you also need your contact details and most likely a disclaimer it can mount up.
I guess it all depends on your company logo as well as to how you design it to suit.

 

[Abraham]

Huh?
You're required as a business to have your company details, reg no. reg. address.
Consider that you also need your contact details and most likely a disclaimer it can mount up.
I guess it all depends on your company logo as well as to how you design it to suit.

yes, the requirement can easily be fitted onto a single line unless you have a crazy long registered address or company name.

My point was it's a single line in addition to whatever else, which is likely to be multiple lines, most of which will be less useful.

 

[Scrutinize]

Thing is, as a professional business registered with companies house why wouldn't want to include your business and contact details.

It takes up 1-2 lines

 

[Windle]

our footer is three paragraphs long not including my email signature!

 

[Meridian]

i know at work the MoJ put an essay on the bottom of everything I send

After a brief exchange with a police officer I had an an e-mail trail that consisted of 1.5 pages of text and nearly six pages of legalese added by our respective organisations.


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[Pudney]

Does anyone know if the law has changed since 2007 or do you think companies (even Solicitors who should know the law) are just flouting the law?

I have no idea about the main part, but this bit, are you sure they're a company?!

 

[anything I don't mind]

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/208156/major-french-company-atos-ban.html
http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Major-global-IT-company-Atos-to-ban-e-mail-8359

I don't know if you heard this news. But I thought it was a good idea, I would much rather have an IM or IRC type message system at the office than have to communicate with emails internally. But I guess you would have to phone outside the company.

 

[Vanilla]

Mine was about 5 lines when I worked in the UK.

The thing is I hear most of it is invalid as it's at the bottom of the email. You can do whatever you want under the previsio that didn't read the whole thing.

That's why most law firms actually have the disclaimer at the TOP of the email and not the bottom (or both).

 

[Vonhelmet]

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/208156/major-french-company-atos-ban.html
http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Major-global-IT-company-Atos-to-ban-e-mail-8359

I don't know if you heard this news. But I thought it was a good idea, I would much rather have an IM or IRC type message system at the office than have to communicate with emails internally. But I guess you would have to phone outside the company.

We have IMs at work.