Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated [2014] EWHC 273 (QB) - John Ross QC & Matthew Chapman, 1 Chancery Lane
01/04/14. This claim arose out of a road traffic accident in Egypt on 3 January 2010 in which the Claimant sustained personal injury and in which the Claimant’s husband and his daughter were tragically killed.
At the time of the accident the family were participating in a private sightseeing tour which had been booked by the Claimant by telephone before arriving in Egypt via a concierge at their hotel: The Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza (the Hotel). She had seen the tour advertised in a brochure retained from a previous stay at the Hotel. Before Mr Justice Tugendhat the Claimant appealed the order of Master Cook, dated 31 July 2013, that the court lacked jurisdiction to try the claim. The central issue at this preliminary stage was the identity of the party to be correctly named ‘Defendant’ (as corporate entity operating/managing the Hotel and entering into the contract for the tour): the apparent owners of the land and buildings of the Hotel, Nova Park Cairo SAE (an Egyptian corporate entity), or the named Defendant, a Canadian company whose branding appeared in the Hotel’s promotional material. The Defendant argued the...
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