<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19 Jan 2011, at 13:37, Andrew Cormack wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Did you consider the possibility that in that scenario the secretary may actually be acting as a legal agent for the boss? It was discussed on another list last year where we concluded that if the secretary wasn't the "intended recipient" then there was no way out of the conclusion that they were acting unlawfully, because of the requirement for both parties to have consented.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Of course, you don't even need to construct scenarios of the workplace to get this problem. Households with a shared answering machine, for example.</div><div><br></div><div>ian</div><div><br></div></body></html>