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Inextricably linked: causation and criminal conduct *
United Kingdom - July 11 2012
Claimant not entitled to recover damages from the driver when he fell off the rear footplate of a van driven at speed to effect an escape; injury occurred as a result of criminal conduct and was as much causative of the injury as was the driver's driving.
Co-authors: Niall Edwards.
Motor cover: insured use of vehicle *
United Kingdom - July 11 2012
The victims of a taxi driver, who lured women into his taxi for actual or attempted sexual assault, could not claim against the driver's motor insurer; injuries did not "arise out of the use of a vehicle on a road" within the Road Traffic Act 1988 s.145(3)(a).
Co-authors: Niall Edwards.
Court of Appeal allows new evidence obtained after the trial to be admitted in RTA claim *
United Kingdom - June 10 2011
On 1 May 2008, the Claimants alleged they were passengers in a vehicle driven by Mr Habib, when Mr Habib collided with a stationary vehicle, the identity of which was never revealed, and that as a result they suffered injuries.
Yetkin v London Borough of Newham *
United Kingdom - July 13 2010
Local authority liable to pedestrian whose view of the highway was restricted by planting; House of Lords' decision in Gorringe did not limit duty of care in these circumstances.
