When we look at the court case over in Perth Australia against Clarity1 Pty Ltd (“Clarity1”) and the managing director, Mr Wayne Mansfield (“Mansfield”) who were both prosecuted for spamming we can see that Clarity1 argued that all emails contained an unsubscribe facility and of the 166,000 unsubscribe requests, all were acted upon by Clarity1….

Talking to some of our clients about the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act one question we find always comes up is the following: ‘Before the Act comes into force, do I need to be sure I have some kind of consent before sending a commercial electronic messages to clients, even if they are already…