Rewind: The long winding legal road from Warsaw 1929 to Montreal 1999 by George Tompkins Jnr FRAeS

Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 9:35 a.m.

The \u2018Warsaw Warrior\u2019, George Tompkins Jnr, has probably defended more cases involving the Warsaw Convention than anyone else. In this fascinating lecture, Tompkins takes us into the courtrooms and corridors of power where he helped to shift the USA\u2019s stance on the limitation of liabilities that passengers faced when litigating against airlines in the USA. He then takes us to the Montreal Treaty negotiations where, as legal aid to IATA at the conference, the rules were re-written, before making some observations on the post-Montreal world.\n\nThe recording includes a question-and-answer session and a vote of thanks by Harold Caplan FRAeS.\n\nGeorge Tompkins Jnr gave the RAeS Air Law Group\u2019s 10th Beaumont Memorial Lecture on 16 June 2011. The session was introduced by Robert and the recording was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.