Say cheese...

Employment tribunals are a rich source of "you couldn't make it up" stories.  Here's one - a (male) teacher at a girls' school was dismissed for taking photographs of the girls while on a school trip abroad.  There is no suggestion that the photos were indecent, or in any way inappropriate.  His offence appears to be that he took them using his own camera rather than the school camera.  The school, it seems, wish to retain control of photographs taken of its pupils, this in the name of 'privacy of personal data'.  I suppose you could make a case for that when the pupils are on school premises, but when they're out in the open as it were, they are fair game for anyone with a camera, so to try and forbid anyone - teacher or bystander - from photographing them seems pretty pointless, and to use it as grounds for dismissal somewhat unbelievable.