FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - UK Supreme Court : Lipton v BA City Flyer, pilot falls ill - BA loses appeal
Old Jan 16, 2024 | 6:30 am
  #8  
corporate-wage-slave
Moderator: Iberia Club, Airport Lounges and Ambassador: The British Airways Club
150 Countries Visited
Community Builder
All eyes on you!
15 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold; Flying Blue Life Platinum; LH Sen.; Hilton Diamond; Kemal Kebabs Prized Customer
Posts: 70,877
Originally Posted by Bohinjska Bistrica
I genuinely cannot believe a case of this nature has made the Supreme Court, given it is a dispute over what can only be a couple of hundred pounds.
In the Court of Appeal judgement, Lord Justice Coulson said, under a heading "Too granular an investigation":

Originally Posted by Coulson LJ
Most of these claims are assigned to the Small Claims Track, and the vast bulk of them should be capable of being determined on the papers. In those circumstances, it is contrary to the scheme of the Regulation to allow the carrier to embark on a complex analysis of precisely when, why or how a staff member became ill so as to explain their absence and the subsequent cancellation of the flight.
corporate-wage-slave is offline