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This month, we sort through some of the big questions shaping LC practice today. Is it time to rewrite UCP
Following his writing in the past two editions of DCW, Robert Parson examines legal developments on sanctions and sanctions clauses that have arisen in courts recently and implications for LC practice.
How are LC specialists to understand UCP600 Article 38(k) in situations where a second beneficiary bypasses the transferring bank and presents documents directly to the issuing bank? Scenarios, fundamental issues, and a proposal for revising this UCP sub-article are addressed here.
Although ICC’s Technical Advisory Briefing No. 9 released in March 2024 addresses the subject of direct presentation of documents to an issuing bank, it did not take up the matter of it arising under a transferable documentary credit. Here, I would like to examine UCP treatment of such situations.
This month, we sort through some of the big questions shaping LC practice today. Is it time to rewrite UCP
Following his writing in the past two editions of DCW, Robert Parson examines legal developments on sanctions and sanctions clauses that have arisen in courts recently and implications for LC practice.
In the fifth instalment of his DCW article series on major contemporary issues surrounding documentary credit practice, ICC Banking Commission Senior Technical Advisor Dave Meynell offers his thoughts on the highly-charged question: Is it time for UCP to be revised?
Beyond questions on the rule of strict construction of LC terms, the In re Spiegel case should engender a discussion of the requirements of UCP vs. ISP on what certified means with respect to a government or court-issued document.
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