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ABOUT THE EVENT

This seminar will analyse the provisions of the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, commenting on how it compares with recent amendments to Singapore’s Electronic Transactions Act. It will focus on key concepts underpinning the provisions, such as integrity, controllability and reliability, and will consider how these concepts are intended to work in practice. It concludes that the two pieces of legislation are closely aligned and minor differences of approach can be explained by reference to the particular challenges of integrating these developments into the legal ecosystem of the UK.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She was previously director of the Centre’s Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute (2019-2022) and founder and director of its International Shipping Law LLM (2013-2022). She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice 2nd edn (OUP, 2019), and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law. She had participated in the work of UNCITRAL WG IV, Electronic Commerce which led to the adoption of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in 2017. She also undertook a part-time secondment to the Law Commission of England and Wales to work on the Electronic Trade Documents project (Phase 1 of the Commission’s Digital Assets Project) between November 2020 and March 2022. She is a member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods, and vice-chair of ICC UK Commercial Law and Practice Committee. She is also a member of British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee and editor of the BILA journal.