{"id":27000,"date":"2016-08-31T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/court-of-cassation-company-documents-usable-during-a-court-case-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:24:17","slug":"court-of-cassation-company-documents-usable-during-a-court-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/fr\/news\/court-of-cassation-company-documents-usable-during-a-court-case-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Cassation: company documents usable during a Court case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">With sentence no. 14305\/2016 the Court of Cassation confirmed the unlawfulness of dismissal for disciplinary reasons in the case of an employee dismissed during a dispute over the recognition by the employer of a revised job description involving additional duties. The employee in question took possession of documents useful for the case, sending them from the company email address to a private address, and also submitted to the Court and made public a confidential private letter from the director to another female employee. The Court stated that its attitude had not changed (from its most recent ruling, no. 6420\/2002) and affirmed that \u00ab<em>an employee who, in the course of a dispute with the employer, submits copies of company papers directly impacting on his\/her employment, is not in breach of the duty of loyalty as stipulated in section 2105 of the Civil Code, given that (\u2026) the right to defense in a law suit must be deemed to prevail over the need for company secrecy<\/em>\u00bb. Moreover, according to the Court, when assessing the legitimacy of the mode in which the documentation was acquired by the employee, the Judge should consider \u00ab<em>the possibility that the exercise of the right to defense justifies the conduct of the employee<\/em>\u00bb. In other words, with this sentence, the Court affirmed the following principle in law: the <strong>right to defense <\/strong>of the employee prevails over <strong>company secrecy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sentence no. 14305\/2016 the Court of Cassation confirmed the unlawfulness of dismissal for disciplinary reasons in the case of an employee dismissed during a dispute over the recognition by the employer of a revised job description involving additional duties. 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