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Harry Snook

Harry Snook leads Oracle’s Aviation teams across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring that each of Oracle’s airline clients benefits from a consistently excellent legal service that is as adaptable, responsive, and international as the aviation industry itself.

As a barrister with nearly twenty years’ experience, Harry brings an advocate’s expertise to case preparation and ensures that our clients benefit from clear, goal-oriented advice. He advises on issues of carrier liability, regulatory and licensing matters, insurance, finance and leasing, insolvency and commercial disputes. He leads Oracle’s legal teams in key cases of high strategic interest to our clients, including before the UK Supreme Court and European Court of Justice.

Harry is a sought-after speaker and commentator on Aviation law topics, and a regular participant in industry events and conferences, including those of Airlines for Europe, Airlines UK, and the British Aviation Group.

Some of his representative work includes:

  • Advising an airline client in multijurisdictional insolvency and restructuring.
  • Advising international company on data retention and UK/EU GDPR.
  • Bott & Co Solicitors Ltd v Ryanair DAC (2017-23): Harry led Oracle’s defence of Ryanair in this landmark litigation in the Court of Appeal (England & Wales) and the UK Supreme Court. The case established binding case law upholding a clause in our client’s terms and conditions that required customers to submit compensation claims under Regulation (EC) 261/2004 directly to the airline in the first instance, rather than claiming via a Claims Management Company or other intermediary.
  • Laudamotion GmbH v FlightRight GmbH, WY v Laudamotion GmbH & Ryanair DAC (2023-24). Harry played a leading role in Oracle’s double success in two significant cases referred to the European Court of Justice for preliminary rulings. The Court upheld Oracle’s arguments that compensation was not payable to passengers on delayed flights who did not check-in, nor to passengers who avoided a qualifying delay as a result of self-re-routing.
  • RightNow GmBH v British Airways plc (2020) Harry was instructed as counsel in this matter and was successful in securing the dismissal of the claim. The Claimant, a German "legal tech" company, specialises in buying up - for a fraction of their face value - passengers' legitimate claims to a refund of air passenger duty which is no longer chargeable due to the passengers' cancellation of their tickets. The court agreed that this violated BA's terms and conditions, which ensured that the refunds went only to the passengers themselves.
  • Advising international clients on UK and EU terms and conditions.
  • Advising clients on Commercial Contracts, including IT and IP Contracts.
  • Fluent in English
Director - Global Head of Aviation
  • Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
    London WC1V 7QH
  • +44 020 3051 5060
  • info@oraclelawglobal.com

Areas of Expertise

  • Aviation Law
  • Company Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Regulatory Law

Education & Memberships

  • Member of the Inner Temple
  • Bar Vocational Course (Grade: Outstanding; Inns of Court School of Law, 2006)
  • Common Professional Examination/Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Commendation, 2005)
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