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13/04/2006 Disclaimers could make emails into contracts |
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The High Court in Manchester has ruled that an email cannot be recognised as a legal written offer if it does not contain a signature or name within the body of the mail. The inclusion of a user name in the message header is not enough.
Judge Pelling ruled that the automatic inclusion of an email address is not enough to count as a signature.
The end result of this could be that people who include a signature and disclaimer at the bottom of their emails might actually be making themselves more liable than people who just send one line emails.
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