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This free course was written by Magnus Ramage, Joyce Fortune, Neil Murray and Mustafa Ali.

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Text in Box 3: Clarke, G. (2014) ‘£100m DMI Omni fail: BBC Managers' Emails Trawled by Employment Tribunal’, The Register, 12 August 2014, © The Register, http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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