Electronic Land Dealings in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom: Lessons for Australia

E LAW | Electronic Land Dealings in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom: Lessons for Australia
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"Electronic commerce offers new ways of conducting commercial transactions. Changes in the way commerce is undertaken nationally and internationally has placed greater reliance on technology and increased the use of the Internet as an interactive medium. The nature of the Internet as "a decentralised, global medium of communication comprising a global web of linked networks and computers"[2] has created issues for the formation of common contracts, given rise to complex jurisdictional problems, ignited debate on privacy and defamation issues, created new intellectual property rights which require protection and created a variety of complex consumer protection issues which may not be covered by present legislation."




The full paper gives an excellent expose on eConveyancing dealings in Ontario Canda, British Columbia, New Zealand, UK and Australia
Author Sharon Christensen
Gadens Professor in Property Law, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law