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Jasper01 | 12:05 Wed 17th Oct 2007 | Law
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Is an email a legal document
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It can be, yes

As long as there is no disclaimer on the bottom and some where on it the legal blurb is written along the lines of 'this is a legal document'
Pffff... Disclaimers on emails are to all intents and purposes worthless from a legal perspective. They're only useful to notify recipients where they should re-send document if recieved in error.

Email is simply a medium; what is important is the content and an organisation should ascribe the same value to a particular type of content regardless of content.

Now, there could be an issue about legal admissibility, which arises where it is not always possible to prove that a document contains an unaltered version of the content. If you can't then a judge would be entitled to refuse to accept a document into proceedings.

Without more detail about precisely you want to know, it's difficult to give an exact answer.

Durr - I should have written:

'Email is simply a medium; what is important is the content and an organisation should ascribe the same value to a particular type of content regardless of medium.'

i would say yes epending on the content
For reference I called my sister before I answered. She is a legal secretary
It largely depends what you mean by a legal document. As Wald says its the content not the fact that its an email that is important.
If you asking whether it would admissable in court proceedings that is a totally different scenario. The short answer is it could be, but it really would depend on the circumstances

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