Originally Posted by
WB627
I think TUI will be paying loads of compo to the other SLF onboard for this one. Class action, balance of probability being the test in a civil court.
I hope TUI would defend that case, not cave in with a settlement. The SLF in the class action would have to have contracted coronavirus,* and the lawyers hoping for "loads of compo" (most of which would go to the lawyers themselves, under no-win-no-fee) would have to show that
on balance of probability their clients contracted coronavirus on the plane and not in Zante airport or Cardiff airport or anywhere else. The passengers' legal contract is probably with TUI UK Limited, under the law of England and Wales, and in the UK civil cases are tried by a judge, not by an impressionable jury.
* Of course lawyers would claim "mental anguish fearing that they
might contract coronavirus." I hope that wouldn't work, but in today's world it just might.