by Wheeler Joseph | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Bruce Towers (Mr Towers) was employed by Hevilift Limited (Hevilift) in 2006 as a helicopter pilot. Hevilift provided air transport for workers in a mining project in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. On 20 April 2006, Mr Towers was ferrying mine workers to a camp site...
by Wheeler Joseph | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article – ‘Sexual assaults in the sky: The failure of aviation law and how to fix it’ – first appeared in Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, issue 151, published in April 2019 (Sydney, Australia, ISSN 1449-7719). It has been reproduced...
by Wheeler Joseph | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant change to the lives of many, bringing with it unprecedented statutory allowances across many industries including in aviation law. On 22 April 2020, the Queensland Parliament passed new legislation that allows courts to...
by Wheeler Joseph | Mar 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
So you’ve been on a flight that a COVID-19 infected person has travelled on too? The tragedy of this situation may never eventuate but of course you might have concerns. Given the public health emergency that is the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recent (applicable...
by Wheeler Joseph | Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
On 26 January 2020, a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, the famous American basketball icon, crashed in Calabasas, California killing all onboard, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna and 8 other people. On 24 February 2020, a star-studded...
