Employee deleting email files...

An employee that I have had concerns about ( and is currently working her notice period) has deleted all sent emails from her computer. This equates to 14 months business correspondence with existing and potential clients. I may be able to retrieve this data, I may not. What legal action could I take If i wanted against my employee, who has 2 months left to work.
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Re : Employee deleting email files

Just wondered (if you're still around Taz) what happened with this?

Just as a point of interest it would be interesting to know what the legal situation would be when an employee does this...

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Yes it would be interesting to hear the outcome of this. It's not clear to me there is anything you could do about it but of course a lawyer would be able to tell you what the state of play is there.

As a general lesson perhaps it would be a good idea to ensure that all business email that goes through your company is automatically backed up anyway. I imagine most businesses do that anyway, and certainly those that filter employee emails.

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Unfortunately I think very little - it's not a DPA issue as the employee is deleting the emails - not using them for benefit outside of the organisation. Don't quote me though - I'm not legal expert.
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I think so you must not allow him to delete all the sents emails, if he do so then you should deduct his pay..
How is this idea?