Five judges at the Supreme Court of England have ruled in favour of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in a landmark case.
The ruling said that the Pakistani national airliner was right to use lawful act under economic duress on a British Pakistani travel agent while enforcing a new contract for the sale of tickets to Pakistan in 2012.
PIA was presented by Farani Taylor Solicitors, which is being called one of the longest-running cases against the claimant times travel a small family-owned travel agency in Birmingham.
This case goes back to the time when PIA was the only airline that operated direct flights between the UK and Pakistan. The Pakistani community heavily relied on the sale of flight tickets as well as anybody else who would call the travel agency to book a ticket to Pakistan.
Managing Partner Farhan Farani of Farani Taylor Solicitors confirmed that the impact of the judgment is enormously huge in English Law. He added: “This decision effectively resets the boundaries of duress and will have major ramifications for commercial negotiations in future. PIA would have ended up paying huge commissions retrospectively from 2012 and it would have opened floodgates for them."
