Legal Research

Any Case Law on e-Signatures in Canada?

By John Gregory

One of the big issues that Canada?s e-commerce / e-transactions / etc. legislation in the past decade was intended to resolve was the legal status of electronic signatures. At least that was the popular impression. A lot of people (not necessarily lawyers) referred to the legislation as ?the e-signature bill?. (The Law Commission of England and Wales concluded that no legislation was needed to make e-signature valid in that country / those countries, however, and I suspect that conclusion was valid here too.)

Have there been any cases in any jurisdiction in Canada on the legal status of electronic signatures under the e-commerce / etc legislation? If there are a lot of them (and I can?t think of any at the moment), is there a good collection?

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).