Contract Law

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A&L Goodbody lawyers Abbey Walker, Keith Dunn and Mark Thompson consider whether WhatsApp messages and emojis can be legally binding. In today's digital age, the use of emojis and messaging platforms like WhatsApp have become commonplace in business communications. However, recent legal cases ha

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Scottish lawyer Richard McMeeken details new proposals to deal with the contract law implications of the current crisis. Following a meeting on 7 April 2020 of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law attended by (among others) Lord Neuberger, Lord Phillips, Sir David Edward and Si

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An email with an "automatic" signature has the same legal effect as a signed document, the High Court of England and Wales has ruled in a dispute over the sale of a plot of land. The case, heard by Judge Pearce in Manchester, concerned a string of emails in which lawyers for two men involved in a pr

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