This site contains a substantial collection of writing on credit hire law and practice, developed over the past decade. The emphasis is practical: what the authorities mean, how the rules operate and where the real risks lie.
Recent analysis appears below. The four broad gateways provide a quicker route into the archive by subject.
Older articles should be read in the context of the law at the date of publication.
Damages
Impecuniosity, basic hire rates, need, period, mitigation and the recoverable measure of loss.
Agreements & Regulation
Enforceability, contractual liability, misrepresentation, credit hire and credit repair agreements, illegality and regulatory issues.
Evidence & Commercial Vehicles
Witness and documentary evidence, procedure, dishonesty, taxis, private hire vehicles, fleets and profit-earning chattels.
Evidence & procedure · Dishonesty & fraud · Taxi, fleet & commercial
Appeals & Costs
Appellate principles, QOCS, non-party costs orders and the procedural and costs consequences of credit hire litigation.
Recent analysis
Evidence & Procedure
Fundamental dishonesty and credit hire
13 May 2026
The developing relationship between credit hire evidence, credibility and findings of fundamental dishonesty.
Appeals · Impecuniosity
On the road again
6 December 2025
The High Court appeal in MIB v Houston: period, impecuniosity, mitigation and the limits of appellate intervention in findings of fact.
Costs · Credit Hire Organisations
The end of the road
26 November 2025
The conclusion of the appellate route in Tescher and the significance of non-party costs exposure for credit hire organisations.
Taxi · Commercial Vehicles
In the back of my cab
2 June 2025
Profit-earning chattels, substantial taxi hire charges and the relationship between replacement hire and loss of profits.
Non-Party Costs
The fast and the furious
12 May 2025
Non-party costs orders against credit hire organisations and the risks which arise when QOCS prevents enforcement against the claimant.
Enforceability · Agreements
It was not there
21 May 2024
Misrepresentation, rescission and the modern attempt to turn those arguments into an enforceability defence in credit hire litigation.
The wider archive
The subject gateways preserve access to the wider archive without forcing every article onto this page. Articles may appear under more than one topic where the issues overlap.
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