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[Music] hello everyone today's topic is getting paid Commission when signing electronically everyone thought that by signing documents securely through electronic signatures it would be easier to prove a claim for Commission a recent case will maintain will make you tighten up your procedures to ensure you are not caught on the wrong side of things century 21 first Canadian corporation and its agent David LaChance brought an action for commission against Lloyd Sharon for eight thousand eight twenty eight thirteen this was based on a buyer representation agreement a br a signed by sharon through the offense assign system at the time they put in an offer with lashon's a-- on another property which was not accepted sharon later purchased a different property during the term of the b ra and century 21 and lashauwn's suit for commissioner in an interesting defense sharon claimed that he had never signed the bre before and that both the agreement to purchase and sale for the property that was not accepted and the b ra who are sent for signature in one email as one attachment when the attachment was clicked open for signature the offense assigned system automatically moved from one signing page to another without the ability to review the entire agreement thus Sharon claimed that he thought it was only signing the agreement of purchase and sale that was not accepted and had no idea that he had also signed the b ra the judge reviewed several cases where buyers had said successfully avoided paying Commission under a sign VRA where they could prove the legal defense of non s factum which means that they did not understand what they were signing typically when documents were signed it in a hurried manner late at night without proper explanation in a decision dated December 28th 2017 deputy judge Brooks of the London small claims court held in favour of century 21 and lashauwn's while the judge stated that the agent did not follow proper practice in explaining the documents he found the buyers were careless in not reviewing the BR a document on their computer screen and could thus not later claim that they did not understand what they were signing still this case could have gone either way here are five things to remember when signing anyone to obra whether in person or through an electronic method 1 explain all key provisions of the BR a in advance to to the extent possible try and sign the VRA early in the process preferably before the time you actually obtain your first offer to submit 3 if using electronic signature make sure that in any email you clearly set out all documents that you are asking to be signed for make sure you remind the client to view any electronic document in advance and email themselves a copy of the signed document before sending it back to you and 5 email the client a copy of anything signed afterwards for...