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Judge dismisses £50,000 credit hire claim over engineer’s ‘absence of reliable evidence’

By 2024-08-08T06:00:00

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Hastings Direct and HF succeeded in having the claim dismissed because the engineer’s evidence ’carried very little weight’ under cross examination

A judge has dismissed a claim totalling £50,000 after it was found that the engineer who provided evidence to a damaged motorcycle’s roadworthiness “was not able to produce evidence of what aspects of repairs were carried out”. 

The claim initially occurred in October 2015 and involved an incident wherein the claimant’s motorcyle was struck and knocked off its stand by a valet employee driving a Citroen in a golf course’s car park.

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