Writs by Email

An English Judge in a maritime arbitration has ruled that serving a writ by email is just as valid as doing so by post or fax, and the fact that the email had been deleted as probably spam was an irrelevant internal failing. The judge, Mr Justice Christopher Clarke said, “The position is, to my mind, no different to the receipt at a company’s office of a letter or telex which, for whatever reason, someone at the company decides to discard."