The Court considered whether a rubber stamp facsimile of a solicitor’s firm on a bill of costs met the requirement for the bill to be ‘signed’.
Held: In connection with authentication: ‘It follows, I think, that the essential requirement of signing is the affixing, either in writing with a pen or pencil or by otherwise impressing on the document one’s name or ‘signature’ so as to personally authenticate the document’.
Judges:
Sir R Evershed (MR)
Citations:
[1954] 1 All ER 763
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Edgell v Glover, Garnett (Returning Officer) QBD 4-Nov-2003
The constituency had adopted an all postal ballot, resulting in a counted majority of one. One ballot paper’s confirmation of identity had not been signed.
Held: The function of the court, exercising its jurisdiction under section 48(1), is . .
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Legal Professions
Updated: 29 April 2022; Ref: scu.187492
