Motor insurance; property damage; Road Traffic Act 1988; Motor Insurance Directives ‘The effect of the Supreme Court judgment is to curtail attempts by claimants to widen the circumstances in which the MIB and RTA insurers are obliged to satisfy claims.’ R & S Pilling (t/a Phoenix Engineering) v UK Insurance Ltd [2019] was not a …
EU motor insurance law: Incoming tide or tidal wave?
John McDonald examines recent motor insurance cases in the CJEU and their effect on UK law ‘EU law as interpreted in these judgments has been implemented in a number of English decisions, and is likely to be implemented in others, which may well have a radical effect on the legal framework underpinning UK motor insurance.‘ …
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Remedies: Disappearing damages?
Katherine Souter assesses the status of an award of damages for breach of the public procurement rules ‘What needs to happen fairly soon is for another case to come before the UKSC, which is referred to the CJEU for clarification, so that we have legal clarity on this issue before the UK leaves the CJEU’s …
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Brexit: Crossing borders
Robert Bell reports on a recent decision of the EFTA Court ‘The question before the court was what level of culpability of a contracting authority was necessary for the court to award damages for breach of the public procurement law.’ A recent public procurement decision of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Court highlights the …
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Update: The best of times, the worst of times
In part one of a two-part consideration, Jorren Knibbe assesses judicial developments in the first half of 2017 ‘Until there is higher judicial authority on the point, any defendant to a significant damages claim will have an incentive to argue that its breaches (if any) were not sufficiently serious.’ This article describes developments in public …
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Practice: Nuclear power – the gift to procurement lawyers that keeps on giving
Helen Prandy, Jenny Beresford-Jones and Ruth Smith consider the impact of NDA v EnergySolutions ‘On top of the costs of the procurement itself this matter has had a significant impact on the public purse.’ One of the highest profile public procurement challenges brought over the past year is the case of Nuclear Decommissioning Authority v …
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Compensation: Uninsured Drivers’ Agreement 2015
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A new motor insurance agreement has come into force after a government consultation. Andrew Baker reports on the implications ‘The new Uninsured Drivers’ Agreement is generally much simpler to understand, less cumbersome and will present much less of a potential minefield for the unwary claimant representative.’Since September 2014 there have been a series of significant …
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