Electronic Signatures in Law

Electronic signatures are ubiquitous. Anyone sending an e-mail or using a credit card uses one. They can have a bearing on all areas of law, and no lawyer is immune from having to advise clients about their legal consequences. This third edition provides an exhaustive discussion of what constitutes...

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1. Verfasser: Mason, Stephen
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 26.01.2012
Ausgabe:3
Schriftenreihe:Law Practitioner Series
Schlagworte:
Automation
Contracts
Data encryption (Computer science)
Digital signatures
Great Britain
Law and legislation
ISBN:9781107012295, 1107012295
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Zusammenfassung:Electronic signatures are ubiquitous. Anyone sending an e-mail or using a credit card uses one. They can have a bearing on all areas of law, and no lawyer is immune from having to advise clients about their legal consequences. This third edition provides an exhaustive discussion of what constitutes an electronic signature, the forms an electronic signature can take and the issues relating to evidence, formation of contract and negligence in respect of electronic signatures. Case law from a wide range of common law and civil law jurisdictions is analysed to illustrate how judges have dealt with changes in technology in the past and how the law has adapted in response.
ISBN:9781107012295
1107012295
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511998058