> One exception is can see is answering private emails - if my wife or a friend writes to my work address, I can't see any problem with replying from that same

> One exception is can see is answering private emails - if my wife or a friend writes to my work address, I can't see any problem with replying from that same address, and it would feel a little silly to require employees to copy-paste the email to a different account. From the excerpts of the verdict I've read, this is pretty much what they're saying. That is, employers should exercise some discretion when they start reading employee's emails and shouldn't do so on a whim. Seems pretty reasonable to me.