"This is definitely not in any way to be construed as admission of fault for the accident," Mr. Carlsen said of the airline's acceptance of liability.
The acceptance of liability on a grand scale has implications which stretch across the Atlantic to the heart of News Corporation.
It points out that acceptance of liability "was an express condition agreed to by the United Nations when it created Status of Forces Agreements such as the one which permitted it to enter Haiti".
Today their fightback moves up a pace, as the commissioner of the Metropolitan police is served papers demanding acceptance of liability, the payment of damages, and an apology, following the alleged assault and unlawful obstruction of two journalists going about their work.
His family want an apology and an acceptance of liability from the Met.
Shell's acceptance of full liability for the spills follows a class action suit bought on behalf of communities by London law firm Leigh Day and Co, which represented the Ivory Coast community that suffered health damage following the dumping of toxic waste by a ship leased to multinational oil company Trafigura in 2006.
Says Rosch: "This scenario – violation of a consent order – makes the Commission's acceptance of Google's denial of liability all the more inexplicable".
Other major barriers include things like public acceptance of self-driving technology, and liability and insurance complications that arise once you remove human drivers from the mix — raising questions like how do you apportion blame when something goes wrong?
And we added up our liabilities and there were a lot of liabilities".
"There are all kinds of liabilities.
According to Charles Elson, professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware, the acceptance of those payments increases the likelihood of their liability for oversight failures.
