4 Jul 2016
WILFRED v LEXINGTON LEGAL LTD [2016] NZHC 1469
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1469
- Court
- High Court
Appellant's 4 June 2011 email constituted an electronic signature accepting the engagement terms including clause 7 and thereby personally guaranteeing LF-2's legal costs; invoices (including one mistakenly addressed to LF-1) recorded costs for work done for LF-2; credit notes and subsequent correspondence did not unconditionally release the principal debtors or discharge the guarantor; no evidence of qualifying contractual mistake or non est factum existed; appeal dismissed and judgment for respondent affirmed.