In this edition of our Motor Fraud Briefing, Francesca O’Neill and Simon Trigger discuss and comment on recent important decisions which give helpful and thorough guidance to courts dealing with road traffic accidents in which low velocity impact and fundamental dishonesty issues arise. These decisions will be particularly significant to Defendants who wish to bring serious inconsistencies in the evidence to light.
January 2019 – Motor Fraud Briefing – low velocity impact and fundamental dishonesty
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
This week Conor Kennedy considers a novel point of construction in relation to challenging service of claim forms; the headline is that defendants must take steps to mount a jurisdictional challenge within the tight deadlines provided for in the CPR, but Conor asks whether this…
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