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More tips on how travel agents may be caught by, or avoid, the PTR - Helen Pugh, 3 Hare Court

26/01/12. On 15th December 2011 the Court of Appeal judgment in Titshall v Qwerty Travel Limited [2011] EWCA Civ 1569 was handed down. It was the second time the Court of Appeal has waded into the debate about when a combination of holiday arrangements is a ‘package’ within the meaning of the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 (“the Regulations”).

This is of real interest to both specialist travel departments and to domestic personal injury lawyers alike. Put succinctly, the broader the definition of ‘package’, the more opportunities for bringing and defending personal injury claims in the English courts pursuant to English law.  Unfortunately, whether a holiday is a ‘package’, within the meaning of the Regulations, is in some cases as clear as mud.

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