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Session 7: Liability for Acts of Terrorism:
The New Unlawful Interference Convention
- Dealing with the financial threat of terrorism - the new Convention on compensation for acts of unlawful interference
- Protection for victims - is the compensation sufficient and fair?
- Protection for the airline industry - would the new Convention ensure survival of the aviation industry in case of a new major terrorist attack?
- Protection of passengers - the top-up of the compensation under the Montreal Convention 1999

CHAIR: Henrik Kjellin - Swedish Ministry Of Justice - Powerpoint

SPEAKERS:
- Michael Gill - International Air Transport Association - Powerpoint
- Gilles Lauzon, Q.C. - Canada, Department of Justice - Powerpoint
- Yaw Nyampong - Institute of Air & Space Law, McGill University - Pdf
 


BIOGRAPHIES

Henrik Kjellin

Henrik Kjellin is the chairman of the ICAO Legal Committee. He has represented the Swedish Ministry of Justice in the negotiations on the 1999 Montreal Convention, the 2001 Cape Town Convention and the 2009 Conventions on third party liability. Henrik Kjellins is an associate judge at the Malmo Court of Appeal.


Michael Gill

Michael Gill joined the Legal Department of IATA in May 2007 and is based in Geneva. Prior to joining IATA, he practised as an Avocat at the Paris Bar specialising in aviation law, acting for airlines and their insurers.
He is qualified as a Solicitor (England & Wales) and as a French Avocat. He graduated LL.B from King's College, London and Maîtrise en droit from the Sorbonne in Paris and has also obtained an LL.M in Private International Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Within the Legal Department of IATA, Michael deals with a range of EU regulatory matters, industry affairs and airline liability issues.  He was a member of the IATA delegation to the ICAO Diplomatic Conference that adopted the Unlawful Interference and General Risks Conventions in May 2009.


Gilles Lauzon, Q.C.

Mr. Lauzon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Laval University (Quebec City), a Licence in Laws from the University of Ottawa (Civil Law) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Common Law).  He articled with Messrs. Ogilvy, Cope in Montreal.  He has been a member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec since 1970.  He was appointed Queen’s Counsel on 29 December 1988.

Mr. Lauzon was legal advisor to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Geneva from 1972 to 1982.  At that time he was also a member of the executive of the Swiss Provident Foundation for the Employees of IATA which manages the pension plan for the Association’s Swiss-based employees.  He was also Secretary of the Think Tank on a Coordinated Policy for International Commercial Aviation held under the auspices of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1974-1978).  In 1982, he returned to Canada and joined the Department of Justice in Ottawa.

His current functions include leading the Canadian legal team at meetings of the International Civil Aviation Organization.  Most notably,  he headed the Canadian delegations at the 1999 Diplomatic Conference that adopted the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air,  at the 2001 Diplomatic Conference that adopted the Cape Town Mobile Equipment Convention and Aircraft Protocol and at the 2009 Diplomatic Conference that adopted the Montreal Conventions on Damage to Third Parties.

He was also a member of the Preparatory Commission for the International Registry established by the Cape Town Conference..  He was Chairman of the ICAO Panel of Legal and Technical Experts on the establishment of a legal framework with regard to the Global Navigation Satellite System.  From September, 2000 to May 2008, Mr. Lauzon was Chairman of the ICAO Legal Committee.  He is currently an ex officio officer of that Committee.  He is also a member on the Preparatory for the Establishment of the International Civil Aviation Compensation Fund established by the 2009 Diplomatic Conference.


Yaw Nyampong

Mr. Yaw Nyampong graduated from the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) program at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon in 1998. He proceeded to complete the Professional Law Course at the Ghana School of Law in 2000, leading to the award of the Qualifying Certificate in Law. Following his call to the Ghana Bar in October 2000, Mr. Nyampong practiced law first as a pupil and later as an associate in the Ghanaian law firm of G. A. Sarpong and Co.  As part of his schedule of responsibilities, Mr. Nyampong worked as external counsel for the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, as a result of which he became very interested in aviation law. In pursuit of this new found interest in air law, Mr. Nyampong sought and gained admission to the Master of Laws (LL.M) program at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University in September 2003. He graduated from this program in 2005 and his LL.M thesis was named to the coveted Dean’s Honour List that year. In 2006, Mr. Nyampong was admitted to the doctoral programme at the Institute of Air and Space Law and he is currently writing his doctoral thesis on aviation war risk insurance. During the time that he has been with the Institute of Air and Space Law, Mr. Nyampong has on several occasions worked as a research and teaching assistant under the supervision of Professors Paul Dempsey and Ram Jakhu. In April 2007, Mr. Nyampong was appointed as the editor of the Annals of Air and Space Law, a refereed scholarly journal published annually by the Institute of Air and Space Law