Originally Posted by
mikimedic
Have nothing to lose, as I am a lawyer myself and will do it myself, at a jurisdiction where they are unlikely to expect to be sued (with a minimum cost to me). The concept of having to report at the airport is a total BS invented by the airlines and not based in any legal norms. So time to do something about it.
You made my day. Burden of evidence is a lesson you missed in your wherever whatever law school? The report taken at the airport helps you with that and the "legal norms" you are looking for are common sense and the CoC. You need to make evidence that your stroller was damaged in the airlines custody and from what I currently see there is nothing but your word. Does not sound like the strongest case.
Originally Posted by
mikimedic
It is not that 'I didn't see the damage'; the damage was not visible at that time, hence there was nothing to report. Not by me, nor anybody else as the matter of fact. And can imagine what comments I would have got here for reporting a 'wet stroller'..
If the damage was there is was certainly "visible". It was most likely not visible to you because you did not check the stroller properly at this point in time. But again: You are not certain yourself that the damage was there the moment you got the stroller back (you did not check). How can you exclude beyond reasonable doubt that the stroller did not suffer that damage between the moment you got it back and the moment you detected it? I could not....