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OFT imposes record £121.5 million penalty on British Airways in price-fixing investigation

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 9 2007

The Office of Fair Trading announced last week that it had reached a settlement with British Airways, which has admitted collusion over the price of passenger fuel surcharges and agreed to pay a fine of £121.5 million to the OFT

High Court strikes out representative element of claim against British Airways

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 21 2009

In a judgment handed down on 8 April 2009 in Emerald Supplies Ltd v British Airways PLC 2009 EWHC 741 (Ch), the High Court has confirmed the strict test which applies where a claimant seeks to bring proceedings on behalf of others who have the same interest in the claim

UK Employment Tribunal has jurisdiction to hear Hong Kong flight attendants’ age and race discrimination claims

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 19 2010

In a judgment given in January 2010, the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal denied an appeal brought by British Airways (BA) and upheld the finding of the Employment Tribunal that BA's Hong Kong resident flight attendants could pursue age and race discrimination claims under UK legislation

Court of Appeal refuses to extend boundaries of representative action procedure to create English class action

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 18 2010

The Court of Appeal has today dismissed the claimants' appeal in Emerald Supplies Ltd and another v British Airways PLC 2010 EWCA Civ 1284, refusing to allow the action to proceed as a representative action under Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) 19

BAE Systems Plc announces global settlement with US and UK

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • 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

Advocate General concludes that qualifying periods can restrict freedom of movement

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 3 2010

Employers who transfer employees between member states may need to consider how to ensure that members' benefits are not adversely affected by the transfer in light of a decision of the Advocate General in Maurits Casteels v British Airways plc (C-37909

High Court clarifies the scope of patent infringement by dealings in a kit of parts

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 2 2010

This week, Mr Justice Arnold delivered his judgment in the latest instalment of the dispute relating to aircraft business class seats

Commercial Court finds that economic downturn does not constitute force majeure

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2010

In Tandrin Aviation Holdings Ltd v Aero Toy Store LLC 2010 EWHC 40 (Comm), Mr Justice Hamblen awarded summary judgment against a party who sought to argue that the stark change in market conditions triggered a force majeure clause

Union recognition: union can apply to CAC where employees sufficiently strongly connected to GB

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 7 2012

The High Court has decided that a bargaining unit of pilots working for a UK registered company in several European countries was sufficiently strongly connected to Great Britain to enable the trade union to seek statutory recognition for collective bargaining from the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC

The EU's Emission Trading System (EU ETS) takes off

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2011

From 1 January 2012, aircraft operators which operate international flights to, from or between EU airports will be required to surrender emissions allowances against their carbon emissions as part of the EU's Emission Trading System

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