Articles
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.
The latest specialist analysis appears below. If you are looking for a particular issue, the four gateways provide a quicker route into the archive.
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
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On track
In between the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and now the smouldering fires of a Europe wide heatwave, the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 passed quietly into law a month or two ago. Procedural statutes rarely have an enthusiastic readership and the full ramifications of this statute will only slowly permeate into the…
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The golden labrador
I have had to reluctantly postpone Sunny’s walk to Save the Children on 17th July to September. The temperature is predicted to hit 36 degrees in the river valley on that day. And although she could easily cover the miles, I am afraid at the moment I could not, and I can’t let her do…
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Save the Children 17th July 2022
Its that time of year again, when Sunny undertakes her annual walk for charity. This year she is supporting Save the Children. She will walk 13 miles along the Trent Valley Way. Whether it is the trauma caused by the pandemic in this country, or famine in East Africa and the Yemen, or war in…
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams
I walk a lonely roadThe only one that I have ever knownDon’t know where it goesBut it’s home to me, and I walk alone -Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day I fear I have been neglecting you recently. There have been relatively few articles on this blog, this year, really because I have been so…
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The dogs of war
All of you are fine-looking men. My dogs are desperate to meet you. I haven’t fed them in seven days…. -Ramsay Bolton, Winterfell I have returned from my Easter holidays with a sense that the world is starting to move faster. Today, sees the advent of the French presidential election, where a victory for the National Front…
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The road not taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth. -Robert Frost Already the year is running fast. So far we have seen and endured pestilence, storm and now war, a hot…
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Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday, can’t trust that dayMonday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that wayOh Monday mornin’ you gave me no warnin’ of what was to beOh Monday, Monday, how could you leave and not take me? -The Mamas and the Papas Today, I sat at my desk and at 9.55am promptly logged onto the Cloud…
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Silver on the tree
‘That is a chapter of ancient history which it might be good to recall; for there was sorrow then too, and gathering dark, but great valour, and great deeds that were not wholly vain.’ -The Fellowship of the Ring Well done. Well done you. If you are reading this blog, you are still alive, and…
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