“The High Court held that a solicitor's automatic email signature was proof of signature of a disputed settlement, the terms of which were confirmed by email. Even though automatically generated, the signature at the footer could only be present because of a conscious decision to insert the contents, whether in a particular case or more generally in all cases. Furthermore, the recipient had no reason to suppose that the presence of the signature may have been unknown to the sender.”

“The arbitration clause contained in a licence agreement between ABP and Tata was held to be valid according to s. 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996. The agreement provided for renegotiation in case of "major... change in circumstances" and arbitration in case parties failed to agree on new terms. The Court held that the arbitration clause was sufficiently certain to be binding.”