Travel and aviation
Cross-border claims
Case notes on claims that cross state or national borders, and which law applies.
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Picture hiddenCross-border claimsNo wriggle room on ACL interpretation: consumers forever on top
Australia’s top court has emphatically ruled that the protections that the Australian Consumer Law provide to consumers and small businesses are impervious to subversion and in so doing has embedded them into the business…
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Picture hiddenCross-border claimsOz courts to aid overseas Ruby Princess pax: class action waiver clause “unfair”
The Ruby Princess departed Sydney on 8 March 2020 for New Zealand and returned on 19 March becoming the catalyst for the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the first phase of the pandemic.
- Cross-border claims
White Island cruise ship passengers win big: Royal Caribbean refused anti-suit injunction
The tragic loss of life from the December 2019 volcanic eruption at White Island in New Zealand has made its way to the courts in a ruling that allows injured and deceased cruise ship passenger compensation claims to be…
- Cross-border claims
What lies beneath? Coral Sea reef contest echoes China “island” claims
A recent ruling on some residual cost issues arising out of the 2015 Federal Court sovereignty claim over the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs that lie in the Coral Sea 95 km north of Lord Howe Island coincides with a much larger…
Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.
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