A university academic sacked for serious misconduct has been denied access to about 12,000 work emails. On the day he was sacked access to his work email account was terminated, resulting in him losing contact with many of his colleagues, business partners and personal contacts. He requested that the un-named university give him a computer hard drive containing all his work emails from a 12-month period of his employment. The request was refused on the basis the emails were university property, thedecision says. Furthermore, the university had made an offer to release some, approved emails to the academic rather than the entire hard drive.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 14, 2017 20:26 UTC