UK: England and Wales: execution of documents by a company

The ICLR, as part of its free case summary service, has provided a summary for the recent Court of Appeal decision Williams v Redcard Ltd. [2011] EWCA Civ 466: see here. To quote from the ICLR's headnote for the decision:

Under section 44 of the Companies Act 2006 a company document could validly be signed by signatories acting for the company even though the execution did not take place either with the common seal of the company or by expressly being signed 'for or on behalf of the company' ".