Can it really be that time of year again? No sooner has the fully-dressed, flame-retardant plastic
Christmas tree been dispatched to the cupboard under the stairs than it is time to fetch it out again.
We have enjoyed another eventful year on the travel law front: Keefe (nearly) reached the Court of
Justice; X v Kuoni provided (and will continue to provide) some, ahem, leftfield turbulence and looming
over all of us is Brexit: the BIG vote is presently scheduled for 11 December 2018 (it’s truly the
Christmas gift that keeps on giving isn’t it?)
The Supreme Court has ruled that claims for compensation by a man who killed three people, but was acquitted by a jury in the Crown Court on the grounds of insanity, are barred by the doctrine of illegality. The Claimant, Mr Lewis-Ranwell, sought damages from…
In this week’s Dekagram Dominique Smith examines a recent decision of the Court of Appeal considering and endorsing 90:10 split liability offers (contrary to the received wisdom following the decision of the High Court in Mundy v TUI [2023] EWHC 385 (Ch); and Robbie Parkin…
Kerry analyses Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and the Supreme Court’s attempt to impose coherence on decades of caselaw from McLoughlin, Alcock and Frost through Walters, Shorter and Ronayne. She then asks the hard question for modern travel law practitioners: what, if anything, can claimants do…
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