A judge has challenged the fairness of the policy of a News Corporation [3] subsidiary under which all e-mails are deleted after only three days, with only those considered important printed out and included in hard copy files. Justice Ronald Sackville told News Limited [4]'s barrister, Noel Hutley, that the company should "Keep them. Or don't engage in a systematic process of removal of them so that in a case like this the end result is that ... I simply don't know what the contemporaneous communications were within News." In its closing submission News Ltd pointed out that the deletion of e-mails by its in-house lawyer was consistent with the system employed by News's head office in New York. Sackville is hearing a case into allegations that News Limited and others sought to undermine the viability of a pay TV company operated by the Seven Network.