By John Oates for The
Register.
This story has been reproduced with permission.
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.
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.
Dixon Wilson still has a month to appeal the decision. The firm
declined to comment on the result.
As a result of the row Sanderson has landed herself a book
deal.
More from the Telegraph here.
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Petite Anglaise herself.
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2007
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