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Reform of the UK Outer Space Act

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 31 2012

On 23 March 2011, George Osborne promised that: “To create a level playing field with other countries, the Government will reform the Outer Space Act 1986 by introducing an upper limit on liability for UK operators.”

Aviation round-up the big six

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 15 2013

As a new year begins, Bill Gibson, a partner in the SNR Denton Aviation Group looks at six of the main legal developments in the aircraft finance and

Choosing between New York and English law in Chinese aviation agreements

  • Jones Day
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  • China, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 10 2012

As China's population continues to surge and its foreign currency reserves swell, the aviation industry in China is expanding at an astonishing rate

British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia give binding commitments on transatlantic routes

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 16 2010

Commitments offered by the three members of the oneworld airline alliance have been made legally binding by the Commission to ensure competition on transatlantic passenger air transport markets is maintained

Collective settlement for fuel surcharge price-fixing reached

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 12 2008

Details have been announced of British Airways’ (BA) and Virgin Atlantic’s (Virgin) settlement of a multimillion US dollar class action brought in the US courts

British Airways fined for price fixing by UK and US competition authorities

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 3 2007

Unprecedented parallel antitrust investigations by the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have left British Airways with fines totalling £270 million (£121.5 million from the OFT and US$300 million from the DOJ

A new approach to FCPA enforcement - can the FCA be far behind?

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

2010 is promising to be a banner year for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"

No U.S.-style class actions in the UK just yet: UK Court of Appeal rejects representative damages action against air freight cartel

  • Jones Day
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • November 24 2010

The English Court of Appeal has rejected a request to join hundreds of claimants to a damages claim against British Airways (BA) for its involvement in an air freight cartel

BAE Systems Plc announces global settlement with US and UK

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 16 2010

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) have reached a global settlement with BAE Systems Plc (BAE Systems), after the company admitted to control failures in the way it ran its business globally

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (“ETS”): is an EU v. the world trade war in the offing?

  • Morton Fraser
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • November 30 2011

In 2009, a number of US aircraft operators commenced legal proceedings challenging British legislation which includes those operators in the EU’s ETS