Delay due to de-icing

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Hi all - Forum newbie - please be gentle!
I have had a claim turned down by the ADR adjudicator for a delayed flight with Easyjet. The defence was bad weather, but the actual reason was that there was a delay in getting a deicing rig to our plane. Planes were taking off just fine once de-iced, and although the weather deteriorated later and lots of flights were cancelled, that wasnt the case here.
I know that there is a case on deicing NOT being sufficient to deny a claim, but i just have a boiler plate response from the adjudicator, and s/he doesnt appear to have taken any of my comments (or the case law) into account.
WHat now? I'm tempted to go small claims court, but dont want to if the case law (from Germany) isnt binding. ANy ideas please?
Thanks!
I have had a claim turned down by the ADR adjudicator for a delayed flight with Easyjet. The defence was bad weather, but the actual reason was that there was a delay in getting a deicing rig to our plane. Planes were taking off just fine once de-iced, and although the weather deteriorated later and lots of flights were cancelled, that wasnt the case here.
I know that there is a case on deicing NOT being sufficient to deny a claim, but i just have a boiler plate response from the adjudicator, and s/he doesnt appear to have taken any of my comments (or the case law) into account.
WHat now? I'm tempted to go small claims court, but dont want to if the case law (from Germany) isnt binding. ANy ideas please?
Thanks!
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- are pre-Brexit German judgments binding on UK courts since the UK left the EU?
- is the case you're relying on from a sufficiently senior court?
- is it sufficiently relevant to your scenario?
Perhaps worth expanding on your line of argument in more detail and citing the case you refer to, especially with regard to the full wording of the relevant clause in the regulations (i.e. no airline liability if "caused by extraordinary circumstances which could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken")?The issue of EU judgments being applicable to UK courts post-Brexit is one I've just had a quick search about but wouldn't feel confident in commenting on! Maybe one for the likes of Legal Beagles?
My argument is that it's not an extraordinary circumstance (not one I've seen defined anywhere).
So I'm interested in this also.
I thought the EU compensation laws were taken on after brexit?
From my understanding of the government's interpretations of this specific legislation, EU rulings are not automatically transferred to the UK post-Brexit, but courts likely due to similar wording will take them into account. I have successfully used a non-EU court judgement (but again where the legislation has the same wording) against an EU airline but not in court. I would have no problem doing this in the courtroom however, quoting from the UK legislation (which is exactly the same with different currency amounts). Whether a judge would agree with this I don't know.
I can spell, my iPad can't.
Surely a case like this is unlikely to be dragged up to higher courts?
The real question for us normal people (and businesses) is how far to take it.
If you're a millionaire then that may be a different matter.
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Bad weather obviously manifests itself in various ways, in terms of runway closures, ATC restrictions, etc, but how much of your delay was solely attributable to sourcing a deicing rig?