Read the full judgment text of HCCL 000114/1993 on BabelCite. This HCCL judgment was delivered on 2 October 1995.
1. The first defendant has taken out a summons asking for an order that a preliminary point of law be tried before the trial of the action. The point of law is said to be whether a servant or agent of a carrier by air performing the international carriage of cargo within the meaning of Article 1 of the amended Warsaw Convention as set out in the First Annex to Schedule 1 to the Carriage by Air (Overseas Territories) Order 1967 who is sued in the tort of detinue for the wrongful detention of such