new rules of process & digital signatures

[Dave Bird]

In article <199906151554.QAA26479@onlinemagic.com>, Phillip Temple
<ptemple@onlinemagic.com> writes
>At 03:18 PM 6/14/99 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: 
>>Accroding to some reports in German newspapers, new rules of process
>>have been adopted in England and Wales.  
>>
>>Is anything known on implications for the recognition of electronic
>>documents and digital signatures in civil processes?
>
>Tony Blair has stated he wants a percentage of government business
>done by electronic means within a short period, and by a certain date
>he wants all government business. I don't have the article to hand so
>am not going to risk numbers ;-)


 I sat in a pub with a middle-ranking DTI person who assured me the
 absolute certain result of this was that their amount of electronic
 transactions would be, modestly, 1.5% short of that figure on paper
 by the due date.  Many things might happen in the real world, but
 that is what the documents would say......


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