Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
DIGITAL SIGNATURES AND THE STATUTORY SIGNATURE REQUIREMENT
Richard Bethell-Jones*
WS Tankship v Kwangju Bank
WS Tankship II BV v The Kwangju Bank Ltd
1 involved a dispute between a Dutch shipowning company and a Korean bank. The dispute was about whether the bank had to make payment under an advance payment guarantee which it had issued, for the account of a Korean shipbuilder, to the Dutch buyer of a number of vessels. The facts are quite complex and the bank defended the claim made by the Dutch company on a number of
32. Greene Wood v Templeton [2009] EWCA Civ 65; [2009] 1 WLR 2013, [18], [20].
1. [2011] EWHC 3103 (Comm).
CASE AND COMMENT
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