8:17 am, December 5, 2025
Jack Barclay Bentley has been ordered to cough up more than £37,000 over allegations it didn’t do enough to stop a surgeon’s £200,000 car from being stolen from his driveway.
Professor Fares Haddad, a leading figure in sports medicine, successfully claimed that Jack Barclay Bentley in Mayfair should have ensured that his Continental GT’s tracking system was properly set up and monitored.
He told Central London County Court that the dealership’s failure to do so left the car unprotected when thieves struck and stole his car.
Haddad’s insurance company refused to honour his claim, ruling that the car’s tracker had not been fully activated or registered, despite requirements in his policy.
The court heard that the surgeon – credited with saving Harry Kane’s 2019-20 season after he suffered a hamstring injury – specifically asked about the Bentley’s tracking system when he was purchasing the car.
He told the court that he had assumed the dealership would create a continuing tracker subscription for him, following discussions and email exchanges with a sales executive.
However, the dealership failed to activate the tracker, which had been fitted to the car, with phone network Vodafone, leaving the car exposed.
After hearing all the evidence, Judge Andrew Holmes ruled that Jack Barclay Bentley was at fault for the error and awarded Haddad damages.
The surgeon had been seeking £82,643 in damages but the judge slashed his award to just £33,057 after finding that he was partly for blame for failing to notice that the tracker was not working.
Handing down his verdict, Judge Holmes said: ‘But for the failure to send the form to Vodafone, Prof Haddad’s losses would not have occurred. Had the tracker subscription been incepted Prof Haddad would have taken the steps necessary to continue it.’
He added: ‘With each year that went by, the failure to notice or to check his records becomes more difficult to understand.
‘The ordinary person taking an ordinary level of care of his or her own affairs would be expected over time to realise that he was not making payment, or receiving correspondence, about an important point in relation to the insurance of a valuable vehicle.
‘In my judgment, he is 60% to blame for the loss that he has suffered.’
After accumulated interest, Haddad’s total award came in at just over £37,000.
Throughout proceedings, Jack Barclay continued to deny any negligence, liability and ‘foreseeability of loss’, insisting that it did not give an undertaking to activate the tracker and that that was Haddad’s responsibility.
In court, Haddad’s barrister, Bradley Say, said that Haddadd had been told the tracker was ‘standard’ and would be activated by Jack Barclay staff.
Say told the court that his client had ‘made a particular point’ about enquiring about the tracker, following previous problems with the system in his old Aston Martin.
An investigation found that the tracker had been fitted by an engineer at the dealership, but was not registered due a lack of customer details being provided.
Representing Jack Barclay, Sajid Suleman disputed the claim that the dealership had promised to activate the tracker, and argued that it was Haddad’s responsibility to activate it and was to blame for the subscription not being renewed after the initial 12 months of ownership.
