Personal Injury On Cruise Ship Jurisdiction – Which Laws Apply?
Cruising is a well regulated and safe industry, but unfortunately accidents happen. This leads to the question that clients often ask me:“I suffered a personal injury on a cruise ship…
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When Will The Cruise Ban Be Lifted?
Now that Australians can fly internationally once again, the focus is on when the cruise ban will be lifted. Given that Australians are able to fly overseas and cruise where…
Holiday Accident Solicitors Top 5 Safe Travel Tips
The international borders have finally reopened for air travel and the travel industry is reporting pent up demand from Australians desperate to travel again. As one of Australia’s few holiday…
Cruise Ship Accident Compensation Payout for MSC Opera Venice Crash
MSC Cruises has been ordered to pay cruise ship accident compensation to Uniworld River Cruises for the widely publicised 2019 MSC Opera crash in Venice. In the judgment River Countess…
Am I Covered By Medicare On A Domestic Cruise?
With international travel restrictions easing, Royal Caribbean’s confidence that a domestic summer season will go ahead, and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s intention to restart local cruising, you might be looking…
Injured Travellers Lawyers Celebrate X v Kuoni
Injured travellers’ lawyers in the UK are celebrating the recent English Supreme Court decision of X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021] UKSC 34. In this case, Mrs X brought a…
Travel Law Experts Australia Update On Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses
Locked out of a jurisdiction? The Federal Court has recently examined exclusive jurisdiction clauses in the case that travel law experts across Australia are talking about: Karpick v Carnival plc…
Travel Ban: Australia Last Nation Not Resuming Cruise Services
With the Canadian government recently announcing that cruising will resume on 1 November 2021, Australia is left as the last major cruise nation in the world without a published plan…
Cruise Ship Accident Lawyers To Continue U.S. White Island Lawsuit
Cruise ship accident lawyers acting for two Melbourne victims of the White Island volcano disaster have defeated legal action brought by Royal Caribbean to stop the victims from proceeding with…
Ruined Holidays: Disappointment Recoverable Once Moore
In the last international torts and travel law edition of Precedent in 2011, Trudie-Ann Atherton wrote of damages for disappointment following breach of holiday contracts: ‘it seems like everything old…