A group of 236 plaintiffs filed a pre-emptive appeal Thursday to discourage China Airlines from seeking to overturn a ruling ordering it to pay a combined 5 billion yen in compensation over the deadly crash of a CAL jetliner at Nagoya airport in 1994.
The Japanese and Taiwanese plaintiffs, consisting of a few survivors and relatives of the fatalities, have been urging the Taiwanese carrier to accept the redress ruling, according to one of their lawyers, Isomi Suzuki.
"If China Airlines gives up its plan to appeal the ruling, plaintiffs who are ready to accept the decision will drop their appeal," he said.
In the event that the defendants appeal but the plaintiffs do not, a high court can bar the plaintiffs from voicing any dissatisfaction over a lower court ruling.