Now why didn't I think of that…?

[John Mallinson]

Good story for the silly season – any comments from the lawyers amongst us?

[alison]

I'm not a lawyer, but in my field of business it's not uncommon to have to sign non-disclosure agreements and the like.  Anything the person doesn't like can be deleted and/or added in manuscript, and that's perfectly acceptable, but what I suspect happened here is that the guy OCR'd the text, deleted what he didn't like and maybe added other bits so that it wasn't clear what the changes were, and I doubt that is legally acceptable.  OTOH, if the bank signed the revised document without reading the small print ...