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We have considerable experience litigating and advising in the aviation law field, in which much of Chambers’ practice is insurance and reinsurance-based.
Members of Chambers have acted in cases involving Air France, British Airways, Canadair, Continental Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Monarch Airlines and SAS, in matters relating to events such as 9/11, the Air France Concorde 100 crash at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 2000, and Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait (including, in the latter context, the seminal aggregation decisions in Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co S.A.K. [1999] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 803 (Jonathan Gaisman QC and Stephen Phillips) and Scott v Copenhagen Reinsurance Co (UK) Ltd [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep IR 696 (Dominic Kendrick QC and Adam Fenton).
Gavin Kealey Q.C., Stephen Kenny Q.C., John Bignall and Emma Hilliard were recently instructed to appear in a 3 month Commercial Court trial in a £150 million aviation insurance dispute (PK AirFinance US Inc v Chartis & Ors; and Blue Sky One Limited & Ors v Chartis & Ors) which has since settled. It was claimed by the alleged owners and mortgagees of three Boeing 747 aircraft that the aircraft were lost when misappropriated by an Iranian airline: see, by way of background, Blue Sky One Limited and others v Mahan Air and others [2009] EWHC 3314(Comm) and [2010] EWHC 631 (Comm).
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