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New life for Montreal Convention litigation?

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Airlines

Once upon a time, liability for passengers’ injuries was a very active area of aviation law.  Then, for years, it was very dull.  Crack, fine-tuned and highly-paid defence lawyers were left overseeing junior counsel playing whack-a-mole in small claims tribunals. It seemed as if all of the compelling issues had been thrashed out during nearly 80 years of court cases interpreting the world’s oldest private international law treaty, the Warsaw Convention of 1929.  Now, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may have breathed new life into this mainstay for funding school fees and long lunches for generations of lawyers.

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