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NLJ this week: Ryanair and the case of the missing compensation―is the airline liable or not?

25 February 2022
Issue: 7968 / Categories: Legal News , Aviation
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Without pilots, planes don’t fly. So discovered budget airline, Ryanair in 2018

The strikes might be over but the legal claims continue. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Lee Finch & Ann Marie O’Neil, both of Gough Square Chambers, examine the high threshold for determining which events are outside an airline’s control.

Ryanair’s argument is that the strikes amounted to ‘extraordinary circumstances, hence under the relevant regulations the airline is not liable to compensate passengers.

Finch & O’Neil examine the law involved, which is complicated by the fact of Brexit.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

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The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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