In recent correspondence with the Law Society, I have been sent letters that have not been originally signed and where computerised duplicate signatures are used instead.

Our clients expect letters to be actually signed and would consider it an extreme discourtesy to have letters from me with a computerised signature. The Law Society should accord its members a similar courtesy. I brought this to the attention of the Law Society but my letters has not even been answered.


Apart from this, the synthetic signatures provide no evidence that the letters have actually been written by the person purporting to have written them and therefore could be exploited by someone with dishonest intention - as indeed I have known to have happened.



Robert Southcombe, Shah & Co, Ilford, Essex