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Valentina R., lawyer
(2018/C 427/13)
Language of the case: German
Applicant: GN, represented by the father HM
Defendant: ZU, acting as administrator in the insolvency of Niki Luftfahrt GmbH
Where a cup of hot coffee, which is located on the shelf of the seat in front of a person in an aircraft in flight, for unknown reasons slides and tips over, causing a passenger to suffer scalding, does this constitute an ‘accident’ triggering a carrier’s liability within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, concluded in Montreal on 28 May 1999, signed on 9 December 1999 by the European Community on the basis of Article 300(2) EC and approved on behalf of the European Community by Council Decision 2001/539/EC of 5 April 2001 (Montreal Convention, MC)?
Council Decision 2001/539/EC of 5 April 2001 on the conclusion by the European Community of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the Montreal Convention) (OJ 2001 L 194, p. 38).
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