Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).
Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.
For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.
28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120
singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230
Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).
Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.
For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.
28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120
singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230
In a judgment handed down today, the Admiralty Court (Teare J) considered the requirements for becoming the lawful holder of a bill of lading under COGSA 1992, and in particular whether a confirming bank under a letter of credit becomes the lawful holder of a bill indorsed and sent to the bank as part of a presentation, before the bank has made payment under the letter of credit. Teare J held that the claimant bank became the holder of the bill, and had vested in it all rights of suit under the contract of carriage, as soon as it accepted physical delivery of the duly indorsed bill, regardless of when payment was made under the letter of credit. The judgment also considered “spent bills” provisions of COGSA 1992.
Michael Tselentis QC and Socrates Papadopoulos represented the successful Claimant.