Sunstar Leisure has agreed an out-of-court settlement with a client who injured her ankle during a holiday to Lanzarote in 2005.
Patricia Lockett claimed compensation from Sunstar after she slipped and fractured her ankle on the last day of her holiday. She mounted a legal challenge under the Package Travel Regulations 1992.
Sunstar claimed it was not liable under the Package Travel Regulations 1992 because it had used separate providers for each of the elements of the holiday.
Law firm Pannone, representing Mrs Lockett, said its client was only quoted one all-in price for the holiday and made a single credit card payment, meaning the holiday was a package.
The parties agreed an out-of-court settlement the day before the hearing.
Solicitor Clare Campbell of Pannone said she was disappointed the case didn’t get to court.
Campbell said: “I wanted the court to look at [the case] and say this was a package. I think it is a warning to tour operators that the Package Travel Regulations are there and they should know we’re not going to back down.”