AUTOMATICALLY CREATED NAME AT THE FOOT OF AN EMAIL CREATES BINDING CONTRACT TO SELL LAND: “MANY THANKS” FOR THIS

The judgment of HHJ Pearce in Neocleous & Anor v Rees [2019] EWHC 2462 (Ch) is not about procedure.  However it is a judgment that many litigators must become familiar with. An automatically generated name at the end of an email was sufficient to create a binding contract under the Law of Proper...