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We have now published more than 50 specialist credit hire articles. A selection are shown below, or see the complete list here. Subscribers can also access, for free, the latest edition of Kevan & Ellis on Credit Hire.
28/09/23. Mr Justice Martin Spencer gave judgment in an appeal by the Claimant against the dismissal of the claim for credit hire charges on the basis that a lack of an MOT certi...
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29/05/23. Mr Shazad staged a car accident on 25th November 2015. The other driver said at the beginning ‘ I thought the accident was suspicious straight away’ . A court claim ...
30/11/18. As long ago as 2004, in the course of carving out the impecuniosity exception in Lagden v O’Connor, Lord Nicholls expressed the hope that the parties “should be able t...
30/07/18. In Credit hire arguments go in circles, at least that is the experience of the writer (who has now been engaged in conducting credit hire claims for nearly 15 years), w...
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