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Yes - see Golden Ocean Group Ltd v Salgaocar Mining Industries PVT Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 265 in which a name at the end of an email was held to constitute a signature for the purposes of the Statute of Frauds 1677. In any event, unless it's a guarantee or a contract for the sale of land, or another type of contract where the law requires specific formalities before a contract can arise, there's no requirement for a signature in order to create a legally-binding contract. The fact that they've returned it and said they've signed it shows that they've agreed to its terms.
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I sent some folks a contract by email asking them to sign it. They've returned a copy that they say they have signed, but there are no signatures on it, in the traditional sense.
They've used a PDF feature to simply write their names in plain text where the signatures should be.
Is the document still 'signed' and 'binding'?