Understanding technology - a missed fax worth Euro 100 million

Who is still faxing documents nowadays? It becomes more difficult, even for me, who grew up in the fax period. People tend to get used to one technology and older ones just fade away.

This might have been the challenge for a lawyer in Europe who had to fax 100 pages to the European Court - 100 pages seem to be a lot - it would take me a couple of hours and I would dread the task. The best thing is that the lawyer faxed the pages with the wrong side inserted, meaning, all 100 pages were received blank.

As such, the court had to decide in favour of 5 banks that were originally accused of running a cartel to fix foreign currency exchange rates ahead of the introduction of the euro and fined 100 million Euro. They, of course, objected. The lawyer, their opponent (so to speak) had to fax the statement for the European Commission, which subsequently lost the case, as the documents were not received on time.

Question also: Why didn't they use e-mail? While e-mails can get lost in cybespace, the procedure is faster, and one can quickly check if the mail arrived. Another question: Why didn't the lawyer check somewhere in between, if the documents were received? I won't settle my cases with this lawyer, that'sfor sure.