A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky? Soon after 9pm on Wednesday 19 December 2018, an airport security officer who had just finished his shift more...

What’s relevant for Drone Operators when the drone crashes – lessons learned from Alauda Airspeeder MkII? Having reviewed the 65 pages of the AAIB-25876 report in respect of the Alauda Airspeeder MkII owned by Riotplan Proprietary Limited trading as Alauda Racing crash on 4 July 2019 at Goodwood more...

The Legal Framework of UTM for UAS Abstract— It is very apparent that the legal framework for Unmanned aircraft system Traffic Management (UTM) needs to be developed as regulators grapple with issues that relate to legal responsibility and accountability for each UTM stakeholder as the proliferation more...

[2020] EWCA Civ 214 – read judgment Airport expansion has taken a long and winding road, not least at Heathrow. But the proponents of the 3rd runway at Heathrow would have been heartened by the Secretary of State’s decision in June 2018 to set out a policy which preferred Heathrow over Gatwick and more...

The Court of Appeal have ruled on the proposed expansion of capacity at Heathrow Airport by the addition of a third runway under the policy set out in the “Airports National Policy Statement: new runway capacity and infrastructure at airports in the south east of England” (“the ANPS”). The ANPS more...

On 31 January 2020, Dame Victoria Sharp PQBD gave final public approval to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (‘DPA’) between the Serious Fraud Office and Airbus SE, relating to historic failures to prevent bribery and corruption offences in multiple jurisdictions over the period 2011 to 2015. Ben more...

Drone Registration - How safe is your personal registration data? So you have now registered your drone and received your operator ID and/or your flyer ID; what has happened to your personal data? Given that many people last year suffered a phishing attack from the CAA, you may have legitimate more...

Who Wins? Drone operators or Local Government? 1. This is a question that is increasingly being asked by operators, whereby institutions[1] are coming into conflict with drone operators. Institutions are seeking to rely upon local law in support of their established authority. This question raises more...