Delivering judgment, Justice Ibrahim Kala held that Osho endured unnecessary hardship, inconvenience, and financial losses due to the airline’s negligence.
The court also awarded N3 million in litigation costs, covering legal fees, summons charges, and other expenses incurred over the prolonged duration of the case, as well as the impact of naira depreciation, bringing total compensation to N53 million.
Justice Kala noted that Osho successfully established that the airline violated its obligations under the international contract of carriage when it failed to deliver his checked baggage on Flight BA307 from Paris to London on December 2, 2022.
In its defence, British Airways argued that Osho was responsible for his own predicament and urged the court to dismiss the claim. The airline’s counsel also insisted that, if any costs were to be awarded, they should not exceed N60.
The judge, however, dismissed the submission as baseless and inconsistent with the evidence presented before the court.
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ReplyDelete#60 as in sixty Naira?
ReplyDeleteThat lawyer dey crase.
Tell your client to pay him in full. Enough of the rubbish that these airlines do.
Failing to deliver a checked baggage is a fault on the Airways path Which if later than 24hr they need to pay compensation. Can they treat their people like that?
ReplyDeleteDon’t mind them! Doing an international flight only to find out that your luggage didn’t arrive the destination is honestly heartbreaking and here they are stupidly trying to evade responsibility. If it were in their country they would have settled before it got to court.
DeleteFor this same scenario, air france paid 20k sharp sharp to someone I know before she go carry dem go court, this was over 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe airline lawyer dey ment 😂 like they wanted to pay Osho 60 Naira! So ridiculous.
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