Travel & Cross Border Claims Archives

Category: Travel & Cross Border Claims

Apr

The Weekly Roundup: the Caterpillar Wars Edition

We’d be interested to know how many chargeable hours have been spent comparing caterpillar cakes recently; certainly we at 1CL have done very little else this week. Of course, nothing compares to ...

Apr

The Weekly Roundup: Timely Reminders

This week we thought we’d use a couple of recent cases to illustrate a pleading point and a procedural point surprisingly often forgotten, though naturally not by us. Next week we will bring you a ...

Apr

The Weekly Roundup: The Easter Edition

We hope that our readers will, like the team, have returned to work much refreshed and raring to go after the Easter Bank Holiday break. The 1CL Easter Egg Hunt was a predictably competitive affair, ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Summer of Sport Edition

As you would expect, from midnight last night the team at 1CL have been a blur of sporting activity, dusting down the various 1CL bats, clubs and racquets and venturing forth to participate in the ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Anniversary Edition

This week marks the first anniversary of the Weekly Roundup. It’s hard to believe that it was a year ago that we at 1CL decided to bring a little sunshine to our readers’ drab lives, like a Legal ...

Mar

No ‘unforeseeable event’ defence for deliberate acts of hotel employees: CJEU gives judgment in X v Kuoni

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its much anticipated judgment in X v Kuoni Travel Ltd (Case C-578-19) this morning. As expected, the CJEU concurred with the opinion of ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Handy Hints Edition

This week we thought we’d gather together a few thoughts on travel claims generally, from clinical negligence claims arising from treatment abroad, to holiday sickness claims, to the issues around ...

Mar

Special Briefing: the Decision of the Court of Appeal in Begum v Maran [2021] 3 WLUK 162

In Begum v Maran [2021] 3 WLUK 162 the Court of Appeal was asked to reconsider the decision of Jay J in Begum v Maran [2020] EWHC 1846 (QB), which was the subject of a 1CL Special ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Apocalypse Edition

After last week’s warmer, sunnier weather, the team were dismayed to be confronted, this week, by freezing temperatures. No sooner had we clocked this, than Cockerill J was asked to turn her mind to ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Springwatch Edition

The team’s spirits have soared this week; not only have we been able to book a garden table at our favourite restaurant for 13th April, it looks as if we might not need to take the 1CL ...

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