As the weather turns warmer and 12KBW’s International and Travel team begin to yearn for their summer break, their thoughts inevitably turn towards the regulatory regime underpinning any package holidays which they may recently have concluded. So too, it seems, do the thoughts of the Department for Business and Trade, who have recently launched a…
Read moreCommitteri v (1) Club Mediterranée SA (2) Generali Assurances Iard SA [2016] EWHC 1510 (QB) – Package Travel Regulations, Jurisdiction, Rome I, Rome II
James Beeton
This blog post is by James Beeton of 12 King’s Bench Walk. This interesting jurisdictional dispute involved an examination of the nature of a package tour operator’s duty of care – is the duty contractual or non-contractual? The answer to this question raised corresponding issues as to the applicability and effect of Rome I and II.
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