NSW Caselaw
New South Wales District Court
CITATION: Paterson v Air Link Pty Ltd [2008] NSWDC 241 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.
HEARING DATE(S): 13/10/08, 14/10/08, 15/10/08, 16/10/08, 17/10/08, 20/10/08, 21/10/08, 22/10/08
JUDGMENT DATE: 4 November 2008
JURISDICTION: Civil
JUDGMENT OF: Elkaim SC DCJ
DECISION: See paragraph 100
CATCHWORDS: Passenger falling when disembarking from an aircraft - Definition of "accident"
LEGISLATION CITED: Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Act 1959 Warsaw Convention (Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air, October 12 1929).
King v Bristow Helicopters Ltd (Scotland); In Re M [2002] UKHL 7 Gulf Air Company GSC v Fattouh [2008] NSWCA 225 Povey v Qantas Airways Ltd 223 CLR 189 In re Deep Vein Thrombosis v Air Travel Group Litigation [2006] 1 AC 495 Air France v Saks 1985 470 US 392 CASES CITED: Singhal v British Airways Plc, 2007, Wandsworth County Court, United Kingdom, Mr Recorder Bueno QC, 20 October 2007 Parkinson v Qantas Airways Ltd, District Court of NSW unreported 17 October 2002 Carswell v Qantas Airways Ltd District Court of NSW 2 July 2004 Hannah v Singapore Airlines Ltd [2007] NSWDC 288 Girard v American Airlines United States District Court, ED New York, Number 00-CV-4559 (ERK), August 21 2003 SS Pharmaceutical Co Ltd & Anor v Qantas Airways Ltd (1988) 22 NSWLR 734 Saunders v Ansett Industries (1975) 10 SASR 579
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