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Blogger Vindicated in Dismissal Case
by Jordan Yerman | March 30, 2007 at 10:01 am
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The blogger fired by her accountancy firm has won her legal battle, as well as a book deal. I see this not so much as a journalistic-protection issue but a basic freedom-of-speech issue.
Catherine Sanderson ran what she considered an anonymous blog while working in Paris for accountancy firm Dixon Wilson. When the beancounters were told of her blog she was sacked for gross misconduct. Sanderson believed the firm could not be identified from her blog while the accountants believed that a picture of her on the blog was enough to identify them.Click here to find out more!
The blog did mention Sanderson's work, without identifying the firm, but was mostly about her life as a separated mother of one living in Paris.
Ms Sanderson was awarded a year's salary plus costs. On her blog she said the verdict was a relief and she would go out and paint the town red if only she could get a babysitter for her daughter.
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