These are the dog days of the year, where phones do not ring, and emails are…
Year: 2017
The BHR and “alternative credit hire rates” evidence
There is a lucrative cottage industry in the generation and submission of BHR evidence for use…
Comprehensive insurance, mitigation and credit hire
There is a tendency in litigation for each new legal generation to re-invent the wheel and…
Spring Lecture Tour
Already the diary is filling up for the first few months of next year, and so,…
Non party costs Orders and credit hire companies
One of the other areas of work that keeps me busy, is costs litigation. The gift…
Keep it simple
Section 151 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, whilst a very useful provision for claimants is…
The dust behind the door
Fraud and credit hire sometimes seem to go hand in hand, and the reason is not…
Sound and fury
An interesting case from a few months ago is the decision in the Court of Appeal…
The Blue Book
Long ago, in the mid 1990s the Nottingham County Court had a local practice direction, agreed…
Order Selacchi
One of the more enduring problems created by credit hire claims arises from the sheer number of…