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Credit Hire: End of the road for impecuniosity?
Patrick West looks at Opoku v Tintas, which provides some encouragement for defendants ‘In Lagden, the House of Lords held that, faced with an injured party whose expenditure in mitigation had been augmented by his impecuniosity, a judge was entitled to take into account the claimant’s lack of means.’ For defendant insurers and solicitors, credit …
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- British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co Ltd v Underground Electric Railways Co of London Ltd (No. 2) [1912] AC 673
- Clark v Ardington [2002] EWCA Civ 510
- Darbishire v Warren [1963] 3 All ER 310
- Dimond v Lovell [2000] UKHL 27
- Giles v Thompson [1993] UKHL 2
- Lagden v O'Connor [2002] EWCA Civ 510; [2003] UKHL 64
- Mattocks v Mann [1993] RTRT 13
- Opoku v Tintas [2013] EWCA Civ 1299
- Pattni v First Leicester Buses Limited; Bent v Highways and Utilities Construction [2011] EWCA Civ 1384