MESSIER DOWTY LTD. AND ANOTHER v. SABENA S.A. AND OTHERS

[2000] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 428

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Lord Woolf, M.R., Lady Justice Hale and Lord Mustill

Carriage by air - Jurisdiction - Negative declarations - Joinder of parties - Starboard landing gear of aircraft failed - Manufacturers of landing gear applied for declarations of non-liability - Whether Court had jurisdiction to grant negative declarations - Whether first defendants should have been joined in action - Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act, 1982, Schedule, arts. 2, 5.3, 6.