Burdis v Livsey: QBD 2001
The several cases claimed the cost of provision by credit hire companies of car hire and repair services to the innocent victims of road accidents. The transactions were ‘res inter alios acta’ –...
View ArticleGilham v Breidenbach: QBD 1982
Whether telling a police offer to ‘Fuck off’ was a withdrawal of the officer’s implied licence to be on private land. Held: The meaning to be inferred from such words was to be worked out in the...
View ArticleCausey v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 11 Nov 2004
[2004] EWHC 3164 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 7(6) England and Wales Updated: 10 October 2021; Ref: scu.226914 br> The post Causey v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 11 Nov 2004...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Underwood: Admn 4 Jun 1997
Prosecutor’s appeal against dismissal of charge of speeding on a motorway when the image was captured by an overhead gantry camera. The magistrates had doubted that the system had been working...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions, Regina (On the Application of) v Bolton:...
[2009] EWHC 1502 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 5(1)(a) England and Wales Updated: 15 October 2021; Ref: scu.347304 br> The post Director of Public Prosecutions, Regina (On the Application of)...
View ArticleWilson and Another v Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority: Admn 19 Jun 2009
The claimants, who promoted responsible motorsports challenged the defendant’s Traffic Regulation Order banning vehicular traffic on certain unsealed roads in the Dales, saying that there was nothing...
View ArticleAmes v MacLeod: OHCS 1969
The accused, who was alleged to have been driving a motor car, had been walking beside it as it ran down a slight incline, and had steered it by placing his hand on the wheel. The car had run out of...
View ArticlePeake v Director of Public Prosecution: Admn 19 Feb 2010
If the signage indicating a speed limit was defective, the fact that the Appellant knew that the speed limit was 50 mph is not relevant. However, the essential question was where the limit must be...
View ArticleMonk v Warbey: CA 1935
The court took a strict view of a vehicle owner’s potential liability to injured third parties. Held: A person who suffered injury by reason of a breach of s35 could maintain an action in damages for...
View ArticleStovin v Wise (Norfolk City Council, 3rd party): CA 16 Feb 1994
A road user was injured on a corner which was known to the highway authority to be dangerous. The authority had sought to make arrangements with the owner of land adjoining the highway to remove a bank...
View ArticleMcLeod v Buchanan: HL 1940
Buchanan allowed his brother to use a vehicle without restriction as to the purpose of use; Buchanan did not actually know (although he had reason to think) that the vehicle the subject of the...
View ArticleGorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council: CA 2 May 2002
The claimant sought damages, alleging that an accident occurred as a result of the defendant highway authority’s negligence in failing to mark the road properly. A ‘Slow’ sign had become faded and had...
View ArticleKohler v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 9 Jul 2010
The driver appealed against her conviction for driving with excess alcohol. She said that she had not been given the protection provided under section 9 against being required to provide a specimen...
View ArticleKnightley v Johns and others: CA 27 Mar 1981
There had been an accident in a tunnel, blocking it. The defendant inspector ordered a traffic constable to ride into the tunnel on his motorcycle against the flow of traffic. The constable crashed and...
View ArticleCusack v London Borough of Harrow: SC 19 Jun 2013
The landowner practised from property in Harrow. The former garden had now for many years been used as a forecourt open to the highway, for parking cars of staff and clients. Cars crossed the footpath...
View ArticleAA and Sons Ltd v Slough Borough Council: Admn 14 Apr 2014
Statutory review pursuant to section 124 and Schedule 9 paragraph 35 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 in relation to four traffic regulation orders adopted by Slough Borough Council in 2012...
View ArticleMarshall v Osmond: CA 1983
The plaintiff was passenger in a stolen car seeking to escape the police as they chased. The car was stopped, the plaintiff got out of the car, and was hit by a police car. He sought damages. Held: His...
View ArticleRegina v Camden London Borough Council Ex Parte Cran and Others: QBD 25 Jan 1995
A designation of an area as a controlled parking area was vitiated by the failure of the Local Authority to consult locally. The court expanded on the principles for consultation set out in Gunning:...
View ArticleCharlebois v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 14 Jan 2003
[2003] EWHC 54 (Admin) Bailii Road Traffic Act 1988 172(2) England and Wales Crime, Road Traffic, Human Rights Updated: 17 November 2021; Ref: scu.184627 The post Charlebois v Director of Public...
View ArticleAttfield, Regina (on The Application of) v London Borough of Barnet: Admn 22...
The Claimant, a resident of the London Borough of Barnet, applies for judicial review of the decision of the Defendant to increase the charges for residents’ parking permits and visitor vouchers in...
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