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Arthern v Ryanair DAC [2023] EWHC 46 (KC): Oh dear, you’ve slipped on some water and had an …

January 24, 2023 Spencer Turner Aviation, Montreal Convention

In this post, John-Paul Swoboda provides his commentary on the recent decision in Arthern v Ryanair DAC [2023] EWHC 46 (KC). When a person slips on some liquid on a floor, whether it be by a poolside, on an aeroplane, or elsewhere we call it is an accident. A slip is, by definition, unexpected. A…

Package travel, aviation, and the role of local law

April 22, 2020 James Beeton Aviation

In Palaiokrassus & Tsakou v Black and Green Trading Limited (Unreported) 7 April 2020, QBD, Master Thornett dismissed an application to set aside default judgment brought under CPR r. 13.9 and r. 3.9. The case concerned claims for personal injuries suffered in an air crash which occurred during a package holiday in Ethiopia. In dismissing…

12 KBW Middle-East Newsletter

June 27, 2018 James Beeton Aviation

The International & Travel team at 12 KBW recently produced a Middle-East Newsletter containing a number of articles that may also interest the readers of this blog. The articles concern the 2017 Gulf crisis and its impact on regional aviation, the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018, delayed and cancelled flight claims, and…

Air accidents and the production of material gathered by the Air Accident Investigation Branch; R (Secretary of State) v HM Senior Coroner for Norfolk & BAPA [2016] EWHC 2279 & Chief Constable of Sussex Police v Secretary of State for Transport & BAPA [2016] EWHC 2280

October 12, 2016 John-Paul Swoboda AAIB, Aviation

This article is by Michael Rawlinson QC and Patrick Vincent of 12 King’s Bench Walk. The Divisional Court has given new guidance to coroners and the police restricting their ability to demand production of material given to the Air Accident Investigation Branch (“AAIB”) whilst discharging their respective fact finding obligations where air crashes had led…

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