Open AccessLiving with an Archaic Treaty: Solving the Problem of the Warsaw Convention's Gold Clause
Author(s) -
Warren Hastings
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
victoria university of wellington law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-3082
pISSN - 1171-042X
DOI - 10.26686/vuwlr.v26i2.6170
Subject(s) - convention , unification , treaty , law , liability , political science , project commissioning , publishing , computer science , programming language
Article 22 of the Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage By Air limits carriers' liability by reference to the franc Poincaré or gold franc, a standard that no longer exists. Until the Montreal Protocols come into force or a revised and consolidated Convention is created, the author proposes a method that relies on cooperation between the executive and the courts to keep Article 22 alive and useful.