EU 261/2004 to be enforced in Britain(?)

[BigFrank]

I am sure that I heard a fleeting report on BBC 5live today to the effect that a British court had today ordered airlines to stop obfuscating over the concept of "extraordinary circumstances" and start paying up when routine delays of over 3 hours occur.(They interviewed a solicitor from a firm specialising in such claims who asserted that his company alone had 8 000 claims of this nature in the pipe-line.)

I have searched the internet but I cannot find any mention of such a ruling being issued today.

Did anyone else hear it?

Which airlines will be hit hardest by the British judicial authorities belatedly and grudgingly enforcing this EU law?