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Credit Hire: The Cost of Bent Metal - Jason Prosser, Credit Hire Advocacy Services

26/11/11. On 24th November 2011 the Court of Appeal handed down a single judgment, [2011] EWCA Civ 1384, in two cases, Pattni v First Leicester Buses and Bent v Highways and Utilities Construction,  of considerable interest to those involved in credit hire litigation.

Bent

For Bent, this was the second visit to the Court of Appeal and this case is the more fundamental of the two as the Court of Appeal revisited the vexed question of how to calculate the so called “spot rate” for the purposes of ascertaining the cost, if any, of additional services provided by credit hire companies which are irrecoverable at law pursuant to Dimond v Lovell [2002] 1AC 384.

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