Course details
This course provides regulators and managers with basic knowledge and understanding of legal principles and procedures as applied in various legal systems to assist in their decision making that might have legal consequences, with some focus on potential exposure to liability. Practical examples of how to apply this knowledge in decision-making will be included. The topics covered will be presented in layman terms to ensure that non-legal professionals would benefit fully from this course.
OUTLINE
- Types of Injuries
- Physical/emotional/economical
- Regulation/law/crime
- Injuries to persons/non-persons/State
- Liability Concepts
- Judge-made Common Law
- Civil Code-Legislative
- Similar State systems
- Duty of care
- Forseeability
- Reasonableness
- Intent/negligence
- Strict liability
- Injury/damages
- Contributory fault
- Napoleonic Code basis
- Same basic principles as common law
- Contract Concepts
- Offer and acceptance
- Satisfaction
- Breach
- Damages
- Documentation-statute of frauds
- Criminal Concepts
- Criminal Code-legislative
- Act/intent
- Punitive sanction
- Public interest
- Blame
- Compensation
- Safety
- Press
- Agency Concepts
- Principle-agent
- Employer-employee
- Apparent authority
- Vicarious liability
- Duties of an agent
- State employees
- Litigation Overview
- Statute of Limitations
- Forum selection
- Parties-deep pockets
- Discovery
- Trial/jury/appeal
- Settlement negotiations
- Outcomes
- Jurisdiction
- Competency of the Court
- Subject matter
- Parties
- Long arm
- Forum shopping
- Evidence
- Controlled by formal rules
- Reliability
- Relevance
- Hearsay
- Best evidence
- Limitations by law
- Civil or criminal
- Code or common
- Discovery
- Format
- Preparation
- Rules
- On the record
- Mock Deposition
- Set the facts
- Brief clients
- Managing the Press
- Accident/incident
- Fall out
- Inpidual/corporation/State
- State
- No comments/muddled
- Getting it wrong
- Legal consequences
- Insurance
- Realities of coverage
- Inpidual/corporation/State
- Influence before and after the incident
- Control of the lawsuits
- Settlements
- Safety Impact
- Litigation as a positive force
- Fear of consequences
- Reactive and proactive safety
- Safety management
- Requires data on threats
- Pre-incident
- Voluntary disclosure
- Requires positive reporting culture in State and company
- Law-Safety Interface
- Accident investigation records
- ICAO Annex 13 (Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation)
- Accident report findings
- Accident report conclusions and recommendations
- Cockpit voice/video recorders
- Flight data recorders
- Computer reconstructions
- Act or statements
- Case Studies
- Concorde at CDG
- SAS at Milan-Linate
- Tuninter at sea
- Deepwater Horizon
- Palmerston North-New Zealand
- Comair-LEX
- Air France-YYZ
- JAL 907-Tokyo
- AF447 action in the US
- Exercises
- Facts of two classic tort cases given and analysed
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Legal and non-legal professionals from civil aviation authorities, airport authorities/operators, air traffic services providers, airlines and aircraft manufacturers, aerospace industry will benefit from the course. Personnel directly involved in or supporting civil aviation business will also find this relevant.
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About Singapore Aviation Academy
The Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA), established in 1958, is the internationally-recognised training arm of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. It offers a wide range of operational and management programmes that benchmark international standards and best practices to meet the training needs of the global aviation community. SAA is an ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Full Member, ICAO-endorsed Government Safety Inspector Training Centre and ICAO Aviation Security Training Centre.
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