Practitioners acting for claimants in motor vehicle damage cases should note that the cost of hiring an equivalent replacement vehicle (same make, model and year) is prima facie recoverable, and the onus of proving that such hire was unreasonable lies on the defendant; it is not sufficient for the defendant to show that a cheaper vehicle would have met the claimant's functional transport needs.
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