The transition from a world of legal documents on paper to one of
electronic documents still encounters difficulties after all these years.
Not exact matches
While there are
still some security concerns,
electronic signatures are now widely used in private affairs, legal dealings, business transactions, and even as part of official government
documents.
Despite decades of predictions that a fully
electronic, paperless society is almost upon us, we
still live in a world populated with printed
documents.
If you
still have stacks of paper
documents, digitize them and place into the
electronic financial folders you created.
The whole point for me would be to able to make notations and
still keep all my
documents in the
electronic form.
While they enjoy the searchability of
electronic documents and databases, academics
still prefer holding a book in their hands to read it.
PDF is
still the most widely used
electronic document format in the world.
Note:
Electronic documents are archived and available for up to seven years when the account is
still openned.
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When the new system launches, the official filing of
documents will
still be on paper, with
electronic copies required in addition, but
electronic filing will eventually become the official form of filing, he said.
You can give your colleagues your attention while
still having access to the
electronic documents that you are working on together and
still being available for phone calls.
The National Archives of Canada used to have, and may
still have, a policy not to accept digitally signed
electronic documents, because the certificates supporting the signatures would not be valid for long enough to allow for authentication in the foreseeable future.
However, with regard to your statement: «You can give your colleagues your attention while
still having access to the
electronic documents that you are working on together and
still being available for phone calls.»
I recognize there is
still some outmoded thinking about e-signatures (as if faxes weren't essentially
electronic documents themselves, except easier to fake than PDFs), but for general legal communications, where is the evidence?
However, proper technology that is probably currently available could
still make the process paperless, so long as the affiant's and commissioner's signature can be put on the same
electronic document.
When we change this for an
electronic document, we accept that the
document still has the same effect as if it was in writing and signed.
One may ask if abolishing the need for writing abolishes the rule about seals for those
documents, or whether somehow the
electronic versions as well as paper versions
still benefit from virtual sealing thanks to the deeming effect of s. 13.
As the volume of discovery materials in litigation continues to expand, due in part to
still increasing
electronic document discovery volumes, there needs to be a process in place for firms to be able and manage costs of processing and
document review.
The effect, one hopes, is to rein in the kind of unlimited
electronic document discovery that causes litigation and arbitration costs to soar, but the wording
still leaves the door open to pre-hearing wrangling over the scope of
document production.
Leehealey maintains that the continued popularity of the legacy software north of the border is largely due to the fact that images of
electronic documents are
still acceptable in Canadian jurisdictions, whereas Americans have stricter standards with regard to the use of native
document formats that contain metadata (information about such things as when and by whom the
document was created, copied, or accessed).
For example, while the entire business world thrives on dealing with
electronic documents and
electronic signatures, for couple of decades now, the
electronic filing in our Courts is only now just starting up and booking the motions
still goes by fax and calling the Court's office.
So Part 2 of PIPEDA (the «ED» part =
electronic documents), being an enactment of the then - current draft of the UECA, is
still clearly within federal power.
For example, although you might be able to process
electronic documents through your transaction management system, the lawyers, lenders, and title companies in your area might not be up to speed, so you'll
still have to provide paper
documents.