Throughout the history of this discussion one strand is that the Bill is in large part unnecessary.
English law is already flexible enough to achieve what is required.
To confirm this there is the case of Victor Chandler International v Commissioners of Customs and Excise and another Times 8th of March 2000. An English court has always been able to ask itself whether what was presented was intended to be a signature, and to accept it if it seemed appropriate. At the first instance it was argued that the Teletext page was not a document within the Act, and that therefore the publication of the Teletext page was not caught. That argument succeeded, but the commissioners appealed and their appeal was successful. The Court of Appeal held that the word 'document' here was intended to refer to an act in which held information the computer file was in effect the paper and the characteristic which turned that into the document was the presence of recorded information.