Unlock Electronic Signature Legitimacy for Warranty Deed in Australia

How to eSign a document: electronic signature legitimacy for Warranty Deed in Australia

well good afternoon and welcome ladies and gentlemen to this webinar entitled electronic signatures key issues and covered 19 considerations minor as you can see is Keith Markham and I will be your presenter for this particular course this afternoon let's have a look at the particular course objectives that we have here to start with so let's just go through those and first of all we go to consider the requirements of the applicable legislation and we're going to look at various things with regard to that will then go on to talk about the relevant case law and finally we'll talk about a series of very practical covered 19 related practical concerns that you need to bear in mind let's just an elaborate on that a little bit more with a more detailed agenda size have a look at that together so we're going to begin with the color overview what will that contain well that will contain some brief mentions of the law society guidance and indeed the most recent more Commission report on this particular topic there will be want to talk about applicable legislation we will look at the Electronic Communications Act 2000 briefly also look at the Eid a/s regulation which is an important new inspired regulation that we will be looking at in a little bit of detail after that will then go on to look at these formalities with regard to these sorts of matters we'll see of course that with simple contracts typically there is no typical requirement of any form of formality that the document has been writing and particularly signed however there are certain types of document as we're going to see ultimately that is the case to do with things like guarantees and contracts for the sale of land and what what those formalities are and having established what those formalities are we'll go on to talk about the issue of case law we'll look at several cases to do with a simple contract with a specific stipulation with regard to signature we'll also look at guarantees and also look at contracts for the sale of land in that particular case after that we'll go on to talk about different types of electronic signature that the Law Commission report in particular has outlined as being acceptable well so there's a huge variety of those and we'll highlight what those are in practice well then go on to the knotty issue of deeds now deeds of course have been around for a very long time they've been considered as part of the Lord Commission report and we'll see what that has to say about signing deeds and also whether deeds can be can be witnessed electronically and finally we'll look at a whole series of practical considerations in the light of covered 19 in particular we're going to look at things like signing of court documents signing of documents at the Land Registry we'll also look at witnessing of deeds during the context of coffered 19 as social distancing will go on to talk about concerns about the identity or thority of the relevant signatory of the document that you wish to execute and finally we'll look at issues around three signed pages and virtual closings and think about how that potentially works in the context of covet