Read the full judgment text of DCPI 000145/2001 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 9 December 2002.
2. The liability of an air carrier is governed by the Carriage by Air Ordinance, Cap. 500 which gives the force of law to the Warsaw Convention of 1929 as amended by the Hague Protocol of 1955, as well as the Guadalajara Convention of 1961. The scheme under these various conventions is for an air carrier to be under strict liability for injury to a passenger subject to the statutory defence provided or to the defence of contributory negligence. In this case, the carriage was non-international ca