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Published on: 12 December 2024

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Court of Appeal rules that denying hire charges based solely on the lack of a valid MOT would be disproportionate

Ali v HSF Logistics Polska Sp Zoo [2024] EWCA Civ 1479 concerned an appeal in the Court of Appeal about a claim for hire charges after a road traffic collision, where the claimant’s vehicle lacked a current MOT at the material time of the accident. The court found the defendant’s “causation defence”, that hire could not be recovered because using the car without an MOT would have been unlawful, to be misguided, amounting to an ex turpi causa argument advanced without the necessary proportionality analysis. The court concluded that the missing MOT did not change the reality that the claimant endured inconvenience and required alternative transport as a consequence of the defendant’s tort, losses properly addressed by hire charges. It rejected, an overbroad reliance on illegality and insisted on a proportionate approach to causation and loss. The court decided that refusing hire...

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