Court of Appeal upholds order regarding disclosure of custodians’ personal mobile phones and emails in competition claim
On 2 February 2021, the Court of Appeal upheld a disclosure order made by Roth J on 11 August 2020. Under the Order, various Defendants to competition proceedings brought by Phones 4u were ordered to write to senior current and former employees with a request that they grant access to their personal mobile phones and emails so that these can be searched for work-related communications that may fall within standard disclosure.