17th & 18th October 2001
Some of the issues covered
at this meeting:
•The need for improved email management & contract clauses to support the legality of email
•A need to demonstrate author & time of creation/sending documents using electronic signatures and, development of a contract clause supporting use of electronic signatures
Listed here is a taste of some of the issues brought forward at that meeting.
1.  Emails these days are becoming common place, but are they an OFFICIAL method of communication?  In many instances people are still requesting  the REAL information to be confirmed by traditional POST.
2.  Many people stick to paper based documents and the postal service  because the document can  contain a personal signature to support the information.
There is no excuse now because any electronic document can be supported by an electronic version of a human signature. We have the technology.
 But this fact needs to be included in the contract. The EU directive decrees that electronic signatures are now permissible.