Oddy, Regina (on the Application of) v Bugbugs Ltd: Admn 12 Nov 2003
A private prosecutor appealed dismissal of his complaint that the respondent had operated an unlicensed man-powered rickshaw service. The district judge had held that it was not a taxi service. It was,...
View ArticleSnelling v Whitehead: HL 1975
‘The case is one which is severely distressing to all who have been concerned with it and one which should attract automatic compensation regardless of any question of fault. But no such system has yet...
View ArticleHenderson v Henry E Jenkins and Sons: HL 1970
The House described the burden of proof in a claim for negligence and the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Lord Pearson said: ‘In an action for negligence the plaintiff must allege, and has the burden of...
View ArticleJames v South Glamorgan County Council: 1992
On trial of a charge of supplying a motor vehicle in an un-roadworthy condition, a prosecution witness (the person to whom the vehicle was supplied) had difficulty in locating the Court House. Before...
View ArticleMacDonald v Skelt: QBD 1985
At the close of the prosecution case, it was submitted that the defendant had no case to answer because there was insufficient evidence that the blood specimen taken from him and that analysed by the...
View ArticleBird v Pearce: CA 1979
The plaintiff was a passenger in a car on a major road which who was injured in a collision with a car which emerged from a minor road. The driver of the second car, who was agreed (as between the two...
View ArticleHill v Baxter: QBD 1958
The Court was asked whether the accused had put forward sufficient evidence on a charge of dangerous driving to justify the justices adjudging that he should be acquitted, there having been no dispute...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Watkins: QBD 1989
The offence in section 5 does not require proof that a defendant is likely to drive when accused of being in charge of a motor vehicle whilst unfit through drink or drugs: ‘In regard to that section...
View ArticleRegina v Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council ex parte Heath: 16 Oct 2000
It was submitted that the schemes relating to hackney carriages and private hire vehicles were two distinct schemes, and that the issues in that case had arisen because the Council had fallen into the...
View ArticleRegina v Ferguson: CACD 1970
The defendant was accused of failing to give a sample of breath for testing for alcohol. The defence was that there had been no failure because the appellant had reasonably asked that he should be able...
View ArticleTaylor v Rajan: 2 Jan 1974
The defendant had consumed alcohol so that the alcohol level was 102 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. An appeal was heard as to whether there existed special reasons for not...
View ArticleRegina (Newcastle upon Tyne City Council) v Le Qelenec and Another: QBD 17...
The defendant had been acquitted of selling a trailer in an unroadworthy condition. He knew it to be unroadworthy and the trailer axle had collapsed as it was being towed to its destination. Held: The...
View ArticleRegina v Murphy: CACD 1980
The court considered the constituent elements of causing death by reckless driving. Citations: [1980] QB 434 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime, Road Traffic Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.226129...
View ArticleBranagan v The Director of Public Prosecutions: 2000
The defendant appealed against his conviction of driving with excess alcohol, on the basis of a blood sample. He said that it was a requirement that the intoximeter should be shown to be working...
View ArticleOwen v Chesters: 1985
The court considered the means of proving the reading from a breath test meter: ‘It was clearly the intention of the legislature, in enacting subsection (5), that the defendant should be provided in...
View ArticleAnderton v Waring: QBD 1986
There are limitations upon the use that the court may make of knowledge acquired in other cases. Citations: [1986] RTR 74 Cited by: Cited – Melia v Director of Public Prosecution Admn 5-Jun-1998 The...
View ArticleRegina v McBride: 1961
Evidence that a driver had been drinking was admissible when the driver faced a charge of dangerous driving. Citations: [1962] 2 QB 167, [1961] 3 All ER 6 Cited by: Cited – Regina v Woodward (Terence)...
View ArticleMills v Barnsley Borough Council: CA 1992
The court considered the extent of defect in a highway needed to found a claim that it was dangerous. It emphasised that the duty must not be made too high, balancing the public need against the...
View ArticleSnook v Mannion: QBD 1982
The police officer refused to leave premises after being told to ‘Fuck off’. Held: Whether such words amounted to a withdrawal of the officer’s licence to be on the land was a question of fact in the...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Brodzky: 1997
The court was asked as to what would amount to a reasonable excuse for a driver failing to provide a specimen of breath when so requested: ‘The first point to make is that, although the first question...
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