The Warsaw Convention Annotated:A Legal Handbook

Lawrence Goldhirsch

Kluwer Law International B.V., Sep 28, 2000 - Law - 625 pages

For fast, authoritative answers to questions of liability for international air transportation, this newly updated, enormously useful and timesaving legal resource is without peer. In one volume it provides an incomparable wealth of case law and commentary, conveniently arranged as article-by-article annotation to the Warsaw Convention. This new edition brings the case law up to 1999, and includes the all-important new judicial developments derived to date from such recent air mishaps as KAL 007, Lockerbie, TWA 800, and Swissair 111.

The cases summarized and analyzed under each article come from scores of jurisdictions worldwide, with decisions that in many instances have built on case law from a number of different countries. The author's treatment encompasses the subsequent agreements and protocols that have amended the original 1929 Convention, and cites those significant minority viewpoints, both juridical and scholarly, that serve to clarify some of the more difficult issues that arise in this complex field of international law.

The text used is the English (US) translation of the Convention. Appendices include the authentic original French text of the Warsaw Convention and the English (UK) translation, as well as the three official Spanish texts (Spain, Argentina, and Mexico); the official French, English, and Spanish texts of the Hague Protocol and the Guadalajara Convention; texts of the Montreal Agreement, the Guatemala Protocol, and the four Montreal Protocols; pertinent excerpts from the United States Code of Federal Regulations and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) rules; and up-to-date listings of parties signatory to the Warsaw instruments. A table of cases, with supplemental case citations, is also included.

Contents

• Transportation Documents: 25
• Delivery of Tickets with Irregularities: 32
• 8h Number of Packages Method of Packing: 52
• Stoppage in Transit: 58
• Rights of Consignor and Consignee Inter: 66
• 31: 81
• Damage by Delay: 100
• Contributory Negligence: 117
• Provisions Relieving Carrier Null and Void: 137
• Contractual Time Limitations: 168
• Death of Person Liable: 176
• The Court of the Domicile of the Carrier: 182
• Destination in Cargo Cases: 188
• Suits Against Successive Air Carriers: 201
• Provisions Relating to Combined Transportation: 215
• Appendix: 227
• Text of United Kingdom Translation: 245
• Text of Spanish Translation: 259
• Text of Mexican Translation: 273
• Text of Argentine Translation: 287
• The Hague Protocol 1955 in French: 301
• The Hague Protocol 1955 in English: 311
• The Hague Protocol 1955 in Spanish: 321
• List of High Contracting Parties to all Montreal Additional Protocols: 413
• Comparison Between The Warsaw Convention The Hague Protocol Guatemala City Protocol 1971 and Montreal Protocol No 4: 427
• The Warsaw Convention as Amended at The Hague 1955: 498
• and by Protocol No 4 of Montreal 1975: 515
• Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by: 531
• U S A Code of Federal Regulations 14 C F R 221 175: 553
• IATA Passenger Ticket Notices and Conditions of Contract: 559
• IATA Cargo Air Waybill Conditions of Contract: 565
• Intercarrier Agreement on Passenger Liability IIA: 577
• Agreement on Measures to Implement the IATA Intercarrier Agreement MIA: 579
• Case Index: 581
• ZLW Index Supplementary Case Index Subject Index: 586
• 61: 588
• 579: 591
• 63: 599
• 69: 613
• Oral and Actual Notice of Damage: 618
• 91: 619

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Warsaw Convention Annotated:A Legal Handbook
• Author: Lawrence Goldhirsch
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V., 2000
• ISBN: 9041113649, 9789041113641
• Length: 625 pages
• Subjects: Law / Air & Space; Law / International; Law / Reference