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Airline incentives for COVID-19 vaccination
Introduction Across the globe, governments and corporations have struggled to overcome vaccine hesitancy in respect of COVID-19 vaccination.[1] Experts, including Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, have proposed using incentives to entice Australians to...
FAA Database to Burden US Pilots’ Private Lives in Name of Safety
The FAA announced today that it will establish an electronic pilot records database setting out pilot's private training and qualification history. It was a move sought by Congress in the wake of the 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 disaster, after which the NTSB...
Diversion of Ryanair Flight FR4978: Intercepting International Law
28 May 2021 UPDATE: IALPG's Principal and Legal Practice Director, Joseph Wheeler, was interviewed about the international aviation law around the forced diversion of Ryanair Flight 4978 live on ABC NewsRadio, by Thomas Oriti. The interview is available to listen to...
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Our firm helps to improve aviation safety by acting for clients and in circumstances that will improve the flying (and space) experience for all those it touches. Put differently, we represent pilots, passengers, and aviation and space companies in a variety of legal...
The India travel ban breaches international human rights, health and aviation laws – UN complaint submitted
I have today submitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council about Australia's travel ban on those presently seeking return to Australia from India, which ban includes Australian citizens and breaches a raft of international human rights,...
The India temporary travel ban extends to Australian citizens
Yesterday, 3 May, a temporary, or rather a hopefully temporary, arrangement was put in place that attacked our never-debated but commonly shared assumption: that your Australian citizenship and passport meant that you could come home to...
Space Capstone Publication – Spacepower Doctrine for Space Forces
The first-ever ‘Space Capstone Publication—Spacepower Doctrine for Space Forces’ released by the new United States Space Force on 10 August 2020 is not just a ‘must-read’ for anyone in military forces engaged in space activities globally, but anyone in the national...
Air India Express Flight IX-1344 Tragedy, Kozhikode International Airport
For obligation free initial advice and assistance about passenger victim compensation rights contact us now at [email protected] or +61 7 3040 1099. During the wet evening of 7 August 2020, a Boeing-737 belonging to Air India Express, the subsidiary of Air India,...
Singapore Convention on Mediation
International settlements will soon benefit from the newly created enforcement powers that the Singapore Convention on Mediation will provide. The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, (“Singapore Convention on...