Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently with each passing year. Between 2004 and 2019, there was an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, with ...

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge has told the tribunal that a peeled banana emoji he sent to high court secretary ...

The judge president on Tuesday was reading the WhatsApp texts between himself and Mengo before the Judicial Conduct Tribunal ...

In a June 8 opinion that was itself peppered with the little yellow “thumbs-up” emoji, Saskatchewan judge T.J. Keene ruled that a farmer’s emoji response to a contract sent by a grain ...

An Emoji has served as court evidence in a debt dispute in Dingnan county, Jiangxi province, according to Jiangxi High People's Court on Friday. The debt dispute began last year.

When Mbenenge sent Mengo an emoji of a peeled banana in the middle of what he has admitted were ‘sensual conversations,’ he said it was not meant to depict a male private part.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Canadian Court Rules Thumbs-Up Emoji Is a Contract Agreement.

Sending a "thumbs-up" emoji over text can have major legal implications after a judge in Canada ruled the simple response can represent agreeing to a legally binding contract. Justice T.J. Keene ...

Judge T.J. Keene of the Court of King's Bench in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, agreed and ruled on June 8 the thumbs-up emoji Achter sent served as an agreement to the contract. Keene ordered ...

A Canadian farmer owes $82,000 for breach of contract after using a “thumbs-up” emoji in a text. According to court documents from the King’s Bench for Saskatchewan in March 2021, grain ...

A Canadian farmer owes $82,000 for breach of contract after using a “thumbs-up” emoji in a text. According to court documents from the King’s Bench for Saskatchewan in March 2021, grain ...