Information does not constitute a document

[Ian Brown]

Does this have any effect on the current validity of electronic signatures
on "documents" or the DTI's proposals?

The Times Law Report, 17 August 1999

...In summary, a document was a material object which contained information
capable of extraction from it... 

Information of itself could not constitute a document, and the transmission
of information of itself could not constitute the transmission of a
document...

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