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Drug Dealer’s Injury Damages Bonanza - Ivor Collett, 1 Chancery Lane

01/08/14. In a result which the judge acknowledged had scope to cause some serious head-scratching among ordinary members of the public, a drug-dealer has recently succeeded in a damages claim against the UK government because domestic legislation denied him the ability to obtain compensation from a motor insurer after he suffered injuries in a road traffic accident.

The claimant had previously failed at the Court of Appeal when he sued the motor insurer of his friend and fellow dealer who had crashed the car the car in which they were travelling. The claimant had been found to have a block of cannabis the size of a small football under his jacket when freed from the wreckage of the car and the finding was that at the time of the accident both men were...

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