Records Management programme policies and practices must be followed

A Senior Judge in a landmark US court decision ruled that Piper Aircraft Corporation, a US aircraft manufacturer, had failed to demonstrate that it had consistently followed its records management programme on a routine basis and this had been a significant factor in the decision that the company had not adequately explained its destruction of some evidential documents. In the case Piper had utterly failed to provide credible evidence that a document retention policy ever existed. The ruling rei...

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10.4.1 Manage business records and documents.
13.8 Manage legal and ethical issues