Oxfordshire County Council, Regina (on The Application of) v The Bus Lane...
The driver was caught using a bus lane and issued with a fixed penalty notice. He appealed to the adjudicator. The Council now appealed against a finding that the area was not a designated bus lane...
View ArticleSelby (Justin) v Director of Public Prosecutions: QBD 1994
The defendant sat on a motor bike, propelling it on a pavement with his feet; although the engine was running the machine, according to the defendant, was not in gear. Held: The justices were correct...
View ArticleHerron and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v The Parking Adjudicator:...
The claimant appealed against refusal of judicial review of decisions of the parking adjudicator as to the correctness of 39 penalty charge notices. In each case, they said that the signage supporting...
View ArticleRyder v Crown Prosecution Service: Admn 14 Apr 2011
The defendant appealed by case stated against his conviction for driving with excess alcohol, saying that the collection of a sample of urine had not been in accordance with the requirements of section...
View ArticleRegina v Denton: CACD 1987
Necessity not a defence to reckless driving The trial judge had refused to leave to the jury the defence of necessity, which the appellant sought to bring to a road traffic allegation. Held: The appeal...
View ArticleHughes, Regina v: SC 31 Jul 2013
Uninsured Driver Not Guilty of Causing Death The appellant though an uninsured driver, was driving without fault when another vehicle veered across the road. The other driver died from his injuries,...
View ArticleWright v Wenlock: 1971
The court set out the circumstances in which, in the absense of an explanation, the only proper inference is careless driving.Lord Parker CJ said ‘the facts of a particular case may be such that, in...
View ArticleMcKnight v Davies: 1974
[1974] RTR 4 Leading Case Updated: 13 December 2020; Ref: scu.550151 br> The post McKnight v Davies: 1974 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleGibson v Dalton: CA 1980
The requirement to notify a defendant of the possibility of a prosecution is to allow him to preserve any necessary evidence. Donaldson LJ [1980] RTR 410 Cited by: Cited – Currie, Regina v CACD...
View ArticleRex v Bolkis: CCA 1932
The defendant complained that a jury had not been asked a question of fact, namely whether his name and address could not be discovered withut due diligence. The section had a proviso that failure to...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Spurrier: QBD 21 Jul 1999
It was not absolutely necessary for a defendant who asserted that a Lion Intoximeter was faulty because of a disparity between the reading and what had been drunk, to bring expert evidence to rebut the...
View ArticleEast Staffordshire Borough Council v Rendell: QBD 27 Nov 1995
Redirection of calls out of district in which operator’s licence held was breach. Ind Summary 27-Nov-1995 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 46-1-d Updated: 17 December 2020; Ref:...
View ArticleGoodes v East Sussex County Council: CA 7 Jan 1999
A council which failed to maintain a road ice free when they had decided on the need to prevent icing, and had had the opportunity to prevent it, but failed to take it, were in breach of statutory duty...
View ArticleCoach Hire Surrey Ltd and Another v Traffic Commissioner for The London and...
Appeal from order barring from operator’s licence Lord Justice McCombe [2020] EWCA Civ 1706 Bailii Public Passenger and Vehicles Act 1981 17(3) 14ZA England and Wales Updated: 18 December 2020; Ref:...
View ArticleCriminal Proceedings Against Johannes Martinus Lemmens: ECJ 16 Jun 1998
Evidence called by prosecutor of breathalyser machine was admissible even though the regulations for the type of machine used had not been notified for this purpose as required to the European...
View ArticlePrime v Hosking: QBD 30 Dec 1994
Goods Driver to record time spent on other work after driving ceased. Times 30-Dec-1994 Transport Act 1970 97 England and Wales Updated: 18 December 2020; Ref: scu.85039 br> The post Prime v...
View ArticleRegina v Parking Adjudicator; Ex Parte Wandsworth London Borough Council: CA...
The person registered as the keeper is the person liable to pay a parking fine though the actual act of parking which gave rise to the fine was one carried out by the garage with whom the car had been...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Memery: QBD 4 Jul 2002
The Crown Court had concluded that the intoximeter EC/IR was not a validly approved device or if it was that it was unreasonable for the Secretary of State to have approved it since it was a device...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Bayliff: Admn 7 Mar 2003
[2003] EWHC 539 (Admin) Bailii England and Wales Updated: 18 December 2020; Ref: scu.185572 br> The post Director of Public Prosecutions v Bayliff: Admn 7 Mar 2003 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleVehicle and Operator Services Agency, Regina (on the Application of) v...
The prosecutor appealed a decision of the magistrates not to convict a lorry driver. He had stopped after feeling vibration. At the service station he had taken off and replaced the wheel nuts by hand,...
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