Jones v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 22 Oct 2004
[2004] EWHC 3165 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 5(1)(a) England and Wales Updated: 27 March 2021; Ref: scu.226906 br> The post Jones v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 22 Oct 2004...
View ArticleRegina v Blackshall: CACD 10 Apr 1998
The defence of necessity or duress of circumstance was available to a defendant in dangerous driving charge where sufficient cause could be shown. In this case the victim of a road rage attack with...
View ArticleRegina v Powell: CACD 14 Jul 1997
The defendant had been convicted of other offences at the crown court. Traffic offences were also committed for sentence. The judge imposed a disqualification and penalty points. The section clearly...
View ArticleRegina v Wilsdon: CACD 3 Mar 1998
The defendant renewed his application for leave to appeal against his sentence of twelve months imprisonment after conviction for causing death by dangerous driving. He had been driving a slow moving...
View ArticleEdkins v Knowles: QBD 1973
The motorist was driving at an excessive and dangerous speed. He was seen by detectives from a police motor car. They followed him but thought that he was driving far too fast and dangerously for them...
View ArticleWatson v Skuse: CA 17 Jul 2001
[2001] EWCA Civ 1158 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 27 March 2021; Ref: scu.218354 br> The post Watson v Skuse: CA 17 Jul 2001 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleFearnley v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 10 Jun 2005
The defendant appealed his conviction for driving with excess alcohol. He said that the machine used to measure his breath alcohol was not of the type approved by the Secretary of State. Held: There...
View ArticleEssen v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 12 May 2005
[2005] EWHC 1077 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 4(1) 3 England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Stavrinou, Regina (on the Application Of) v Horseferry Road Justices Admn 22-Feb-2006 The claimant asked...
View ArticleCourtney v Murphy: CA 14 Dec 2001
[2001] EWCA Civ 2059 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 28 March 2021; Ref: scu.218606 br> The post Courtney v Murphy: CA 14 Dec 2001 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticlePhillips v Rafiq and Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB): CA 13 Feb 2007
The MIB appealed from a judgment making it liable for an award of damages to the estate of the deceased who had been a passenger in a vehicle which he knew to be being driven without insurance. The...
View ArticleTuck v Vehicle Inspectorate: Admn 24 Mar 2004
The defendant appealed a conviction for exceeding the gross permitted weight on a goods vehicle. The magistrates having heard the case, the defendant submitted there was no case to answer, the...
View ArticleRose v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 11 Mar 2010
The defendant appealed by case stated his conviction of driving with excess alcohol. He said that the device used was not an approved one. He also said that the reading was invaid in including a...
View ArticleGregory v Director of Public Prosecution: QBD 19 Feb 2002
An analyst had given evidence. The defence called a professor, a toxicologist, who gave expert evidence in relation to what he said were the possible consequences which could have occurred, having...
View ArticleSmith, Regina (on the Application Of) v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn...
[2003] EWHC 1080 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 143(2) England and Wales Updated: 03 April 2021; Ref: scu.185356 br> The post Smith, Regina (on the Application Of) v Director of Public...
View ArticleJG Williams (T/A Wiltrans International) v Harboard for the London Borough of...
The court considered the liability of an employer for a road traffic offence committed by his employee: ‘I am of the view that it is not appropriate to think in terms simply of basing this conviction...
View ArticleAnwar-Lindley, Regina (on the Application Of) v Lancashire Justices: Admn 12...
The applicant sought judicial review of a refusal by magistrates to state a case for the high court having convicted her of driving with excess alcohol. The magistrates had admitted an error and had...
View ArticleIvic v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 9 Jun 2006
Appeal against conviction for driving with excess alcohol – defence claim that prosecution became abuse of process for delay and absence of CCTV evidence lost by police. [2006] EWHC 1570 (Admin) Bailii...
View ArticleService Motor Policies at Lloyds v City Recovery Limited: CA 9 Jul 1997
Stolen cars had been recovered by the police, incurring the costs of removal. The insurers (now the owners) objected to the payment of fees before the cars were restored. They said that as owners they...
View ArticleMeeking, Regina v: CACD 29 Feb 2012
The defendant passenger pulled on the handbrake at speed and caused a crash which her husband, the driver could not prevent. She was charged with manslaughter. Toulson LJ, Kenneth Parker J, Barker QC J...
View ArticleRehill v Rider Holdings Ltd: CA 16 May 2012
The claimant had been injured, being hit by the defendant’s bus. Ward, Richards, Patten LJJ [2012] EWCA Civ 628 Bailii Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 1(1) England and Wales Citing:...
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