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Loss-of-use award was derisory

20th February 1970
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Keywords : Assizes, Law / Crime

• Three appeal court judges have allowec an appeal by Dixons (Scholar Green) Ltd. Stoke on Trent, against a decision of Mr Justice Cusack. At the Staffordshire Assize in January 1969 he had decided that the were entitled to E2 for the loss of use of ax articulated lorry. The vehicle which had beer in a collision in November 1965 was out 01 service for 11 weeks and Dixon had claimed £1,189. This figure had subsequently beer reduced by the claimants to £589. Lon Justice Edmund Davies remarked "That is result which no man in the street could regard as a result." The trial judge had taker the view that it was for the owners to prow their claim, and in the absence of reliabk figures he had made the award. The appeal judges awarded £450.

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