Dorning v Personal Representative of Paul Rigby (Deceased): CA 13 Dec 2007
The claimant motorcyclist appealed dismissal of his claim for damages. Another motorcycle rider had failed to negotiate a bend, and hit a car in coming in the opposite direction. The claimant said that...
View ArticleRegina v Kershberg: CACD 1976
An appropriately qualified member of staff at a forensic laboratory may give expert evidence as to results found by a co-worker. [1976] RTR 526 England and Wales Updated: 03 May 2021; Ref: scu.464825...
View ArticleCity of Westminster and Others, Regina (on the Application of) v Mayor of...
Mr Justice Maurice Kay [2002] EWHC 2440 (Admin) Bailii England and Wales Updated: 03 May 2021; Ref: scu.177936 br> The post City of Westminster and Others, Regina (on the Application of) v Mayor of...
View ArticleWhittall v Kirkby: 1946
Special reasons for non-disqualification of a driver were defined as being reasons which, first, constitute mitigating or extenuating circumstances; secondly, do not amount in law to a defence to the...
View ArticleHayling v Harper and Another: CA 2 Apr 2003
The case asked whether vehicular user of a public footpath in breach of section 34(1) of the 1988 Act could lead to the acquisition by prescription of a public right of way. Held: Hanning barred a...
View ArticleMiller v Garton Shires (A Firm Formerly Known As Gartons) and Another: CA 25...
[2006] EWCA Civ 1386, [2007] RTR 285 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 06 May 2021; Ref: scu.245584 br> The post Miller v Garton Shires (A Firm Formerly Known As Gartons) and Another: CA 25 Oct 2006...
View ArticleDrummond v Regina: CACD 7 Mar 2002
The appellant had been convicted of causing death by careless driving with excess alcohol. He said that he had taken alcohol after stopping driving but before being tested. He challenged the weight of...
View ArticleLyons v May: 1948
A person who was ignorant of the fact that there was no policy of insurance covering a vehicle may be guilty of an offence if he permits the use of the vehicles while uninsured. [1948] 2 All ER 1062...
View ArticleGarner v Director of Public Prosecutions: 1990
The court considered the admissibility of evidence produced by a prescribed device for measuring breath alcohol levels. Held: The record (the printout from a Lion Intoximeter device) was admissible...
View ArticleCommission v Italy (Free Movement Of Goods): ECJ 10 Feb 2009
ecJ Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations Article 28 EC Concept of ‘measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports’ Prohibition on mopeds, motorcycles, motor...
View ArticleCommission v Italy C-110/05: ECJ 5 Oct 2006
(Free Movement Of Goods) Opinion AG Leger – Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Article 28 EC – Free movement of goods – National rules prohibiting mopeds from towing a trailer –...
View ArticlePaterson v Director of Public Prosecutions: 1990
[1990] RTR 329 England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Khatibi v Director of Public Prosecutions Admn 28-Jan-2004 . . These lists may be incomplete. Updated: 09 May 2021; Ref: scu.195888 br> The post...
View ArticleJames v Cavey: QBD 1967
The council introduced regulations restricting parking at a site on alternate weeks between certain hours. The ‘no parking’ signes were covered over with an unrestricted parking sign when parking was...
View ArticlePerformance Cars Ltd v Abraham: CA 28 Jul 1961
The plaintff sought damages after a collision, but the car had already been damaged in a previous accident, the repair of which would cover the second accident. Lord Evershed MR said: ‘In my judgment...
View ArticleAttwater, Regina v: CACD 14 Sep 2010
[2010] EWCA Crim 2399, [2011] RTR 12 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 09 May 2021; Ref: scu.426767 br> The post Attwater, Regina v: CACD 14 Sep 2010 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleMacleod v Hamilton: 1965
Unless an authority which makes a traffic control order complies with the requirements imposed on the making of such an order and the publication of the order is adequate, any offence which it purports...
View ArticleMighell v Reading and Another and Evans v Motor Insurers Bureau and White v...
Passengers were injured in motor vehicles. The drivers were uninsured, and the MIB had declined to make payment. The doctrine of direct effect did not apply where the allegation was that the Motor...
View ArticleCogley v Sherwood: 1959
It is the exhibition of the vehicle for hire through the agency of the driver which is the essence of the offence of plying for hire, unlicensed. [1959] WLR 781 Metropolitan Police Public Carriage Act...
View ArticleDunmill, Regina (On the Application of) v Director Of Public Prosecutions:...
The defendant appealed his conviction for driving with excess alcohol. He had driven his car within a camping site at Hayling Island. He might have been charged with driving on a road or other public...
View ArticleGriffin v Squires: 1958
To count as a road in road traffic law, a stretch of land must at least be a road. A car park was held not to be a road. [1958] 1 WLR 1106 England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Clarke v Kato and Others;...
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