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About the Event

In this course, Professor Saidov will explore the recent developments in the law of sale of goods. The focus will be on the developments in 2024 but some related and other notable developments in the first half of 2025 will also be examined. A substantial part of the course will explain and analyse the cases on English sales law decided by the UK courts. The remaining part of the presentation will focus on: the Singapore case law on sale of goods in the stated period, including the cases that involve the application of the UN Convention on Contracts of the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG) to which Singapore has acceded; some selected cases on the CISG decided by courts in other jurisdictions. A range of sales law issues will be covered in this talk, including an uncertain contract price, implied terms as to goods and remedies.

About the Speaker

Professor Djakhongir Saidov is Professor of Commercial Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and Consultant at Helmsman LLC, Advocates and Solicitors, Singapore. He is an Academic Fellow at Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore where he was also a Visiting Professor for a number of years. His expertise lies in the law of the international sale of goods, international commercial law, remedies for breach of contract, law on expert determination and international energy and oil and gas law. He has published extensively in these areas, including two monographs (The Law of Damages in International Sales – The CISG and Other International Instruments, 2nd edn (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2021); Conformity of Goods and Documents – The Vienna Sales Convention (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2015)). Professor Saidov was a Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) on its Opinion No 19 on ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’ and, between 2009 and 2022, the Editor of ‘English Sale of Goods Law’ in the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (LMCLQ) International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook. He has given lectures and taught courses in the University of Birmingham and other UK universities, National University of Singapore, Diego Portales University (Chile), University of Navarro (Spain), International Training Centre of the ILO, (University of Turin/UNCITRAL (Italy)), University of World Economy and Diplomacy and Tashkent State Juridical Institute (Uzbekistan). He regularly consults law firms on matters of English and international commercial law and has acted as an expert in international commercial arbitration.