Typing a name in an electronic document
The use of electronic signatures pre-dates any form of legislation, and in the latter decade of the twentieth century, adjudicators found themselves applying well established legal principles to new technologies when presented in the form of electronic signatures, just as judges in the nineteenth century were confronted with the increasing use of printing, typewriting and telegrams: all, is must be said, without the need for special legislation to be enacted.
Australia
Adjustment of property interests De Facto Relationships Act 1991 (NT) Faulks v Cameron
China
Contract Shanghai Yaken Enterprise-Image Designing Co. Ltd. v Wel-Mart China Investment Co. Ltd and Yang v Han (for a translation of Yan v Han, see the Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review for 2008) where text messages on mobile telephones with the name of the person at the bottom proved the existence of a loan
England & Wales
Employment Hall v Cognos Limited
Israel
Contract Computer Sky Edv v Prime Medical Company Ltd
United States of America
Insurance - Wilkens v Iowa Insurance Commissioner, Cylburn v Allstate Insurance Company ; Public administration - Doherty v Registry of Motor Vehicles, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services v Haire ; Employment - Campbell v General Dynamics Government Systems Corporation ; Statute of Frauds Cloud Corporation v Hasbro, Inc. , (but see) Toghiyany d/b/a First Class Refurbishing v Amerigas Propane, Inc., Lamle v Mattle, Inc., Shattuck v Klotzbach On Line Power Technologies, Inc., v Square D Company, Rosenfeld v Zerneck, Bazak International Corp. v Tarrant Apparel Group; Amedisys, Inc., v JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustees, In re National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. ; Wills (this case seems not to have been decided correctly) Taylor v Holt
