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Source Currency Issue 191 March 2025 After this sentence add in: Divisions 1-4 have been included in this Issue. In what has been a busy judicial term, it accounts for a compelling decision on the meaning of ‘extraordinary circumstance’ in Regulation 261/2004 by the UK Supreme Court and significant pronouncements on various provisions of the Montreal Convention 1999, with notable contributions from the Canadian Supreme Court on exclusivity, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Article 21(2), the Federal Court of Australia on the definition of ‘embarking or disembarking’ under Article 17(1), the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on the scope of ‘carriage by air’ under Article 18, and a comprehensive decision of the Central London County Court on the contributory negligence provision (Article 20). In addition, we have reported new case law of many courts, including several Courts of Appeals and District Courts in the USA, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the English High Court on the Mon- treal Convention 1999, Regulation 261/2004, aircraft finance, package travel regulations, etc.