We are delighted to announce that Hilary Kett has joined Miles Fanning Legal as a consultant solicitor to undertake commercial work.

Hilary is a very experienced commercial consultant solicitor with over 20 years’ experience working in-house, mostly within the travel industry and financial services and prides herself on giving sound commercial legal advice in an easy to understand way.

Hilary headed up the UK commercial team of a multi-national integrated tour operator for over 11 years where she provided commercial support to the cruise, tour operator, ski and retail operations and had overall responsibility for the provision of legal support to the Group’s airlines.  She joins us after a period working for another global travel business where she was sole legal counsel for EMEA.

Hilary has previously been a member of the ABTA Code of Conduct Committee and has taken part in panel discussions at ABTA travel law events.

She is very experienced with booking conditions, customer documentation, agency agreements, supplier agreements and general procurement matters.  She has a wealth of airline contract experience including ground handling, airports, engineering and fuel agreements.  She can also advise on package travel and ATOL compliance and consumer protection issues.