From: Tettenborn A.M. <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 05/02/2020 18:36:28 UTC
Subject: Irish illegality

A nice homely illegality case in the Armagh county court. Car owner lets her MOT test (ie annual roadworthiness check) lapse, but plans  to renew it after a couple of weeks or so. She parks her car on the road and someone hits it. The other driver's insurers agree to pay for repairs but decline payment for hiring a replacement on the basis of illegality. After analysing Patel v Mirza, the decision is that the claim can go ahead: the illegality was fairly minor, and depriving the plaintiff of recovery disproportionate. Seems a nice textbook example. The only surprising thing is that an insurer thought it worth fighting over about £1250. See Magill v Donnelly [2019] NICty 2; http://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/Misc/2019/NICty2.html .

Andrew

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