{"id":37,"date":"2003-12-12T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-12T22:18:18","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T22:18:18","slug":"lagden-v-oconnor-hl-the-impecunious-claimant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Lagden v O&#8217;Connor (HL) the impecunious claimant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Tort &#8211; remedies &#8211; impecunious claimant]<\/strong> <br \/>D struck C&#8217;s car. C being impecunious (poor) had to hire a car from a&nbsp;car hire company that charged more for the credit involved because C could not pay &#8220;up front&#8221;. This arrangement was more expensive than one hired in the normal way, which C could not afford to do. Since 1933 the rule in Liesbosch Dredger case would not allow a defendant to suffer because of an impecuniosity of the claimant. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: The Liesbosch Dredger must now be regarded as overtaken by subsequent developments in the law. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>C won <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk\/pa\/ld200304\/ldjudgmt\/jd031204\/lagden-1.htm\">Whole cases here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tort &#8211; remedies &#8211; impecunious claimant] D struck C&#8217;s car. C being impecunious (poor) had to hire a car from a&nbsp;car hire company that charged more for the credit involved because C could not pay &#8220;up front&#8221;. This arrangement was more expensive than one hired in the normal way, which C could not afford to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}