Clarke v Winchurch: CA 1969
A car driver, was pulling out across the front of a stationary bus in order to turn right down the road in the direction opposite to that in which the bus was facing. He collided with a moped which had...
View ArticleShaw v Knill: QBD 1974
The driver entered a car park and walked over to a motor cycle parked in the car park. He placed his haversack on the platform of the motor cycle and pushed it for a distance of approximately six yards...
View ArticleRegina v Radcliffe: CACD 1977
In the procedure for giving two specimens of urine at a police station to test for driving over the prescribed limit, it does not matter that the first specimen was of any particular quantity. It...
View ArticleRegina v Musker: 1985
The motorist defendant had been required to provide a laboratory test specimen, under section 9(1). He filled one-third of a two-pint container at 2:15 am. A constable disposed of that pursuant to...
View ArticleGroome v Driscoll: QBD 1969
The defendant, prosecuted for a minor driving offence of driving without due care and attention, did not receive the information of intended prosecution within 14 days as the statute required. He...
View ArticleBritannia Parking Group Ltd v Semark-Jullien: Misc 29 Jul 2020
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View ArticleLevine v Morris: 1970
Lord Widgery said: ‘All motorists are guilty of errors of one kind or another, and I think it would be quite unreal if roads were designed on the assumption that no driver would ever err.’ Lord Widgery...
View ArticleRegina v Tate: CACD 1977
At the close of a prosecution case for driving with excess alcohol, the appellant stated that he would not give or call evidence. He then submitted that the jury should be directed to consider only the...
View ArticleRegina v Willer (Mark Edward): CACD 1986
The defendant appealed against his conviction for reckless driving (absolute discharge and ten penalty points). He drove his car slowly on the pavement in front of a shopping precinct. He said that...
View ArticleRegina vCliff: CACD 25 Nov 2004
The defendant had been convicted of an affray. A car was used in the course of the defendant getting to the scene. He appealed against a sentence of imprisonment and disqualification from driving for...
View ArticleRegina v Hall: CACD 2004
The court considered the propriety of making an anti-social behaviour at the same time as sentencing for traffic offences: ‘There is nothing wrong in principle in making such an order when there are...
View ArticleBetts v Stevens: 1910
The defendant, an Automobile Association patrolman was accused of obstructing a police constable in the execution of his duty. The police had set a speed trap, and the defendant had warned approaching...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosections v D: QBD 21 Feb 2006
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View ArticleMayon v Director of Public Prosecutions: 1988
In the absence of evidence of calibration of an Intoximeter either before or after the second specimen was produced, there had been a failure to prove the precondition that the machine was working...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Crofton: 1994
The court identified three elements to be taken into account to see whether a defendant’s failure to provide a specimen of breath when required to do was reasonable: ‘(i) the need for evidence of...
View ArticleBeard v Wood: 1980
The court discussed the power of a constable to stop a driver. Held: Provided the officer was acting in good faith the statutory powers given to him he need have no grounds for stopping a driver....
View ArticleCannadine v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 2007
The fact that the back of a road sign showing a speed limit had been painted the wrong colour did not make the road de-restricted. There had been no question of the driver being misled. The law was not...
View ArticleMcKenna v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 8 Apr 2005
The defendant appealed a conviction for driving whilst disqualified. He said that an officer’s identification of him should have been excluded from evidence because no identification parade had been...
View ArticleArthur and Another v Anker: CA 1 Dec 1995
arthur_ankerCA1995 The owners of private land engaged the defendants to prevent unauthorised parking. The defendants erected notices at the entrance to the car park and placed notices around the...
View ArticleRegina v Simmonds: CACD 24 Feb 1999
It was proper for a court sentencing for careless driving to allow for the fatal consequences of the driving. As long as culpability remains a sentencing consideration, the court was entitled to make...
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