“Deportation flights should carry human rights monitors to check on the safety of failed asylum seekers who have been forcibly removed, a senior EU commissioner has recommended.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2010
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“An ‘eye in the sky’ arrest of a teenager fleeing from a stolen car using a surveillance drone could land police in court after it emerged it did not have permission to be in the air.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2010
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“A Muslim man was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years today after being convicted of conspiracy to murder by plotting with Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the convicted ringleader of the foiled plan to blow up passenger jets.”
The Times, 10th December 2009
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“One of the worst disasters in recent British military history was the result of ‘incompetence, complacency and cynicism’ by senior military figures which broke the covenant the country has with its soldiers, a devastating official report has concluded.”
The Independent, 29th October 2009
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“The British leader of the plot to bomb seven transatlantic planes is facing the prospect of dying in jail after a judge said today he was likely to remain a dangerous and motivated terrorist for the rest of his life.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2009
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“Three Islamic extremists will be sentenced today for a suicide bomb plot designed to kill thousands of passengers on transatlantic airliners.”
The Independent, 14th September 2009
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“Three men found not guilty of the plot to blow up transatlantic airlines could face a retrial, after the director of public prosecutions said last night he was willing to break with convention and press for a conviction, despite two juries clearing the trio.”
The Guardian, 12th September 2009
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“Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes over the Atlantic with home-made liquid bombs.”
BBC News, 7th September 2009
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George v Eagle Air Services Ltd and Others
Privy Council
“The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself, applied in a claim for damages arising out of an allegation of negligence causing an air crash, so that the burden of proof shifted to the defendant owners and operators of the aircraft to produce an explanation which was consistent with the crash having occurred despite the absence of fault on their part.”
The Times, 15th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
George v Eagle Air Services Ltd
“The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applied in aviation cases where a claim for damages was based on an allegation of negligence which caused an aircraft to crash. The burden of proof then shifted to the defendant owners/operators of the aircraft to produce an explanation which was consistent with the air crash having occurred without any fault on their part.”
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Trident Turboprop (Dublin) Ltd v First Flight Couriers Ltd
Court of Appeal
“International supply contracts which excluded liability for misrepresentation and the right to rescind were not subject to the requirement of reasonableness.”
The Times, 15th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Gottfried Heinrich Case C-345/06
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“An annex to a regulation which laid down measures for the implementation of common basic standards on aviation security had no binding force because it had not been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.”
The Times, 1st April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Proceedings brought by Gottfried Heinrich (Case C – 345/06) [2009] WLR (D) 93
“The annex to Commission Regulation (EC) 622/2003 laying down measures for the implementation of the common basic standards on aviation security, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) 68/2004, had no binding force in so far as it sought to impose obligations on individuals because it had not been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.”
WLR Daily, 12th March 2009
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“A 50-year-old man from Staffordshire has been jailed for six months for a drunken air rage attack on a plane.”
BBC News, 5th March 2009
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Court of Appeal
“A passenger slipping on a plastic strip embedded in the floor of an aircraft was not an accident since there was no distinct event which was not part of the usual, normal and expected operation of the aircraft and which had happened independently of anything done or omitted by the passenger.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
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Wallentin-Hermann v Alitalia – Linee Aeree Italiane SpA Case C-549/07
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“A technical problem in an aircraft which led to the cancellation of a flight did not constitute a sufficiently extraordinary circumstance to justify the carrier refusing to pay compensation to passengers unless the problem stemmed from events which, by their nature or origin, were not inherent in the normal exercise of the carrier’s activity and were beyond its actual control.”
The Times, 16th February 2009
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“A man who terrified passengers on a plane after drinking a bottle of vodka in the toilet cubicle has been jailed for 12 weeks, police said today.”
The Independent, 13th February 2009
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Wallentin-Hermann v Alitalia—Linee Aeree Italiane SpA (Case C-549/07); WLR (D) 3
“A technical problem such as an engine defect that came to light during a routine check on an aircraft and resulted in cancellation of a flight did not normally justify the carrier in refusing to pay compensation to passengers on the ground that the flight had been cancelled owing to ‘extraordinary circumstances’.”
WLR Daily, 7th January 2009
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Barclay v British Airways plc [2008] EWCA Civ 1419; [2008] WLR (D) 412
“Where a passenger slipped on a standard fitting plastic strip embedded in the floor of an aircraft in its normal state and sustained bodily injury, there was no ‘accident’ within the meaning of art 17.1 of the Montreal Convention 1999 since there was no distinct event which was not part of the usual, normal and expected operation of the aircraft and which had happened independently of anything done or omitted by the passenger.”
WLR Daily, 5th January 2009
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“Aviation and shipping look set to be included in a government bill targeting cuts in greenhouse gases, to head off a rebellion by backbench MPs.”
BBC News, 28th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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