Don’t you just love these large corporations like BA, here is a clip from Norton Rose Fulbright’s web site – ‘We have more than 4000 lawyers and other legal staff working across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia’.
I dare say they will send a junior along armed with a couple of law books and a large folder of papers, maybe with an assistant, but even he will be charging BA £500+ per hour, pigs at a trough come to mind here, all this for a €600 claim.
If you are certain of your facts, in an issue which would appear to be fairly black and white, then from experience the Judge will have little time for this ‘sledgehammer’ approach from BA and their ‘fancy lawyers’ and will award you judgment + costs.
He may even award you additional costs for travelling and time off work if he thinks their defence lacked merit from a law firm that should have known better and was just wasting valuable court time.
For all us little guys the very best of luck in your case, keep us posted.
