Neocleous & Anor v Rees [2019]

Neocleous & Anor v Rees [2019] EWHC 2462 — 20 September 2019 (Pearce J)

“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.”

Antonino Cordopatri
E. G. Arghyrakis & Co.
02nd October 2019