As well as her domestic personal injury work, Tabitha is instructed in a broad range of matters involving the Package Travel Regulations 2018, the Montreal Convention and EC Regulation 261/2004. She also has experience of CEDR adjudication work.
Tabitha is very frequently in Court dealing with trials, interim applications and case management conferences. She also has a busy paper-based practice, drafting pleadings as well as advice on liability, causation, quantum, evidence and costs.
By way of example, Tabitha has previously acted for tour operators in relation to the cancellation of school trips during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in contractual claims for loss of enjoyment, one of which was reported widely in the media for the Claimants’ complaint of “stale croissants”.
During pupillage, Tabitha assisted Katherine Deal KC and other supervisors in a broad range of high-value personal injury matters. In the aviation context, she assisted Chris Loxton in the case of Lunn v Antarctic Logistics Centre International (Pty) Ltd (No. 2) [2024] EWHC 169 (KB), in respect of severe injuries the Claimant sustained on an airbase in Antarctica, and in the jurisdictional dispute surrounding Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 1D Ltd & Ors v Fidelis Underwriting Ltd & Ors (Re Russian Aircraft Operator Policy Claims (Jurisdiction Applications)) [2024] EWHC 734 (Comm), for several lessors in proceedings against reinsurers concerning the loss of aircraft and engines detained in Russia.
