References: 29 June 1988, (unreported)
Coram: Phillips J.
In order to exercise the statutory power of detention, of an aircraft the airport had to do some overt act evidencing the act of detention. Detention by an airport authority must be begun by some overt act. Such act need take no particular form. A simple declaration that the aircraft was detained, had it been made to [the operator], would have sufficed; so would an administrative act that would de facto have prevented the aircraft from being flown from the airport. In this case the fixing to the aircraft of a ‘lien notice’ was an act of detention.
Statutes: Civil Aviation Act 1982
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- Cited – Bristol Airport Plc and Another -v- Powdrill and Others CA (lip, [1990] 2 WLR 1362, [1990] Ch 744, [1990] BCLC 585)
An airline company went into administration. The airport seized two airplanes. The administrators claimed they were property within the administration, could not be seized without a court order, and the court should exercise its discretion not to . .
