MTA Queensland’s Corporate Partner, Bennett & Philp Lawyers recently released an alert regarding important information on the dating of documents, both personal and business.

For the entire year of 2020, it’s important that you take appropriate steps to protect yourself when signing and dating documents.

Over the last few years, it has been commonplace to date documents using the last two digits of the year, eg. 13/04/18, or 12 April 2018. However, when dating documents this year, 2020 should never be shortened to 20 as it is incredibly easy to manipulate.

For example, 25/02/20 can be changed to future or past dates by merely adding on digits to the end (e.g., 25/02/2018 or 25/03/2022).

Therefore, please ensure you always enter 2020 in full to avoid any potential issues occurring, now or in the future.

Source: Bennett & Philp Lawyers

22 Jan 2020