Key legal question
Whether the writings of 2 February and 24 March 2004 constituted a sufficient acknowledgment of debt for provisional legal opening.
Extracted holding
No. The letters did not express an unconditional, personal acknowledgment of a payable sum, nor did they clearly and directly refer to documents showing the amount owed.
Extracted reasoning
Mere knowledge of an outstanding debt or a promise to return to the matter later is not enough. The 24 March letter referred to a creditor meeting and to paying 70% of old-company arrears, which is not the debtor's own acknowledgment. The documents also lacked the required explicit link to amount-specifying writings.