Travel & Aviation newsletter February 2025

Welcome to our latest Travel & Aviation newsletter, edited by Katherine Deal KC.

In this edition:

• Christopher Loxton and Nicole Pearson offer analysis of the extraordinary circumstances defence in ‘Flying into uncertainty’.
• Mike Nkrumah gives heart to practitioners mispleading direct rights of action with the Court of Appeal’s decision in Alton v PZU in ‘Polish up your pleadings’.
• Anna Gatrell takes us ‘Up in the air’, addressing turbulence claims under the Montreal Convention.
• Tabitha Hutchison leads us through the never less than thrilling world of fixed costs in gastric claims in ‘Sick of costs?’
• Katharine Bailey covers the new intermediate track in ‘Battle of the bands’.
• Daniel Goldblatt channels Shakespeare in ‘Not single spies but in battalions’, looking at tactical applications for disclosure in cases involving fundamental dishonesty.
• James Hawkins considers the rules surrounding witness statements where English is not the witness’s first language in ‘In your own words’.
• Katherine Deal KC considers claims under the rail convention, COTIF, in ‘All aboard!’.

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