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Introduction In construing the EU Regulation No 261/2004, the European Court of Justice has adopted for several years a position favorable to passengers. Such a case law is particularly questionable notably in respect of safety issues given the pro-consumer approach followed by the court. Indeed, none of the court’s decisions considered safety issues, despite its particular weight…
Valérie Augros had the pleasure to speak at the Accidents Abroad Conference organised in London on 2nd November 2018 by APIL. This year, the conference mainly focused on cross-border disputes in personal injury cases and compared legal issues in the UK, France, Italy and Spain (choice of forum, choice of applicable law, quantum). The transposition…
Valérie Augros enjoyed to speak at the 11th Annual Conference on International Aviation Liability, Insurance and Finance organised by McGill and Peopil in Dublin. This conference took place on 19 and 20 October 2018 in the beautiful National Gallery. The program of the conference illustrates the high-level issues and debates. Find out about the conference…
Valérie Augros attended the International Conference organised on 8 and 9 October 2018 in Estoril (Portugal) by ESHTE and INATEL. There was again a solid program this year. The conference speeches related to the new Package Travel Directive as well as to competition law in tourism, with stimulating developments made by lawyers, practitionners and acamedics from all over the…
Laurence Jegouzo with Master 2 in Tourism law organised a conference on package travel and linked travel arrangements, that took place at the Paris Sorbonne University on 5 July 2018. Travel sector professionals, professors and lawyers discussed all day long about the new provisions introduced by the directive. Valérie Augros who participated to this conference specifically developped…
Professionals in the travel sector should now be ready to comply with the directive (UE) n°2015/2302 on package travel and linked travel arrangements (hereinafter « PTD »). In France, the PTD was transposed in three diffferent texts, as follows : Ordonnance n°2017-1717 du 20 décembre 2017. Décret n°2017-1871 du 29 décembre 2017. These two texts are directly transposing…
Social networks are nowadays widely used including to share one’s comments on labour experience. However, the company that employs a chatty employee may not appreciate when comments on social networks are denigrating or offending against the employer. A distinction is made under French case law based on the private nature of such chats. In a…
The new Package Travel Directive (The Directive (EU) n°2015/2302 of 25 November 2015 on package and linked travel arrangements) was clearly adopted to modernise the provisions set out in the previous directive (EC Directive n° 90/314 of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours). Its purpose was to strengthen the rights of…
Valérie Augros was speaking at the ESHTE/INATEL International Conference in Portugal on 9 & 10 October 2017. This year, lawyers and academics from Europe but also from other regions in the world debated about sustainable tourism law but also on the new package travel directive. Valérie’s presentation was entitled: “The implementation of the new PTD…
The Cour de Casation recently rules that the wrongfull arrest of an aircraft may give rise to compensation when this results in the prejudice (1). In this case, AAS, a company specialised in airlines assistance, had a debt of almost euros 30,000 against a German airline company. Despite numerous request to pay, AAS obtained from…
