Electronic messages - ISDA Provision

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No equivalent definition in the 1992 ISDA. There wasn’t really such a thing as email back then.

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Summary

An innocuous definition you would think but you would be wrong. For behold: an electronic message excludes e-mail. This was a persuasive factor in the learned judge’s idiosyncratic reasoning in the great case of Greenclose v National Westminster Bank plc, a case that illustrates the point that little old ladies make bad law.

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See also

• Greenclose v National Westminster Bank plc

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