NSW Caselaw
New South Wales District Court
CITATION: Fattouh v Gulf Air Company GSC & Anor [2007] NSWDC 153
HEARING DATE(S): 6 July 2007
JUDGMENT DATE: 14 August 2007
JURISDICTION: Civil
JUDGMENT OF: Hungerford ADCJ
DECISION: First defendant's motion for an order that the Court has no jurisdiction over the first defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the proceedings is dismissed. First defendant to pay the plaintiff's costs of the motion.
CATCHWORDS: AVIATION - Carriage by air - Injury to passenger - Carrier's liability - International convention on carriage by air having force in domestic law - Jurisdiction granted by international convention - Agreement or contract for international carriage - Airline ticket - Whether ticket a contract of carriage - Return ticket - Meaning of "place of destination" - Interpretation - Rules of construction of international conventions - Jurisdiction of domestic court upheld
Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth), ss 15AA, 15AB Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Act 1959 (Cth), ss 5, 8(1)(e), 25K, 25L, 25M, 34, 36, and Sch 5 LEGISLATION CITED: Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth), s 39(2) Sea-Carriage of Goods Act 1924 (Cth) Stamp Act 1921 (WA) Warsaw Convention 1929 as amended at The Hague, 1955, and by Protocol No 4 of Montreal, 1975, Arts 1, 3, 4, 17, 18, 24, 28, 32
Aanestad v Air Canada Inc 390 F Supp 1165 (1975) Abdulrahman Al-Zamil v British Airways Inc 770 F 2d 3 (1985) Agtrack (NT) Pty Ltd (t/as Spring Air) v Hatfield (2005) 223 CLR 25 Air Link Pty Ltd v Paterson (2005) 218 ALR 700 Butz v British Airways Inc 421 F Supp 127 (1976) Coyle v PT Garuda Indonesia 363 F 3d 979 (2004) Emery Air Freight Corporation v Merck Sharpe & Dohme (Australia) Pty Ltd (1999) 47 NSWLR 696 Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd [1981] AC 251 Gayda v Lot Polish Airlines 702 F 2d 424 (1983) Great China Metal Industries Co Ltd v Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Berhad (1998) 196 CLR 161 Grein v Imperial Airways Ltd [1937] 1 KB 50 Holmes v Bangladesh Biman Corporation [1989] 1 AC 1112 CASES CITED: Hurley v KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 602 F Supp 1249 (1985) Kotsambasis v Singapore Airlines Ltd (1997) 42 NSWLR 110 Lee v China Airlines Ltd 669 F Supp 979 (1987) MacRobertson Miller Airline Services v Commissioner of State Taxation (Western Australia) (1975) 133 CLR 125 Oceanic Sun Line Special Shipping Company Inc v Fay (1987) 8 NSWLR 242) Oceanic Sun Line Special Shipping Company Inc v Fay (1988) 165 CLR 197 Petrire v Spantax SA 756 F 2d 263 (1985) Povey v Qantas Airways Ltd (2005) 223 CLR 189 Robertson v American Airlines Inc 365 US App DC 217 (2005) Rothmans of Pall Mall (Overseas) Ltd v Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation [1981] QB 368 Shipping Corporation of India Ltd v Gamlen Chemical Co (A/Asia) Pty Ltd (1980) 147 CLR 142 Swaminathan v Swiss Air Transport Co Ltd 962 F 2d 387 (1992) Vertzyas v Singapore Airlines Ltd (2000) 50 NSWLR 1
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