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RMail Registered E-mail™ Services and Evidence issues within the United Kingdom Legal System
This review of the admissibility and evidential weight of RPost’s Registered E-mail™
service in the United Kingdom presents the following conclusions: (1) DELIVERY PROOF: RPost’s
Registered E-mail
service provides a record of
sending and receiving in accordance with the European Electronic Commerce Directive
(2000/31/EC) and today’s eIDAS
by recording the recipient’s server’s receipt thereof; (2) CONTENT PROOF: The encryption
and tamper-detectability of
RPost’s Registered Email™ service preserves the contents of e-mails and their
attachments so as to satisfy process
requirements designed under the European Electronic Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) and
today’s eIDAS, and evidence
law and to establish evidence of content; (3) OFFICIAL TIME STAMP: RPost’s link to a
trusted and objective time
source provides essential and credible evidence in disputes in which the time an e-mail
was sent or received is
material to the case; (4) ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE: RPost’s Registered E-mail™ service
receipts are admissible as to
their fact of delivery, as to their trusted time of delivery and as to the authenticity
of their content; (5)
FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENCE: RPost’s Registered E-mail™ service, under European Electronic
Commerce Directive
(2000/31/EC) and today’s eIDAS, can serve as the functional equivalent of paper mail, to
be used in lieu of
certified mail, registered mail, return receipt mail, private express mail services, fax
logs and similar types of
paper mail services.
