Director of Public Prosecutions v Noe: QBD 19 Apr 2000
When required to give a sample of breath, the motorist consented but made his consent conditional upon first having access to a law book. He was charged with refusing to provide a specimen of breath...
View ArticleRamsey v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 17 Jul 1996
Citations: [1996] EWHC Admin 39 Statutes: Road Traffic Act 1988 5(1) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic Updated: 05 May 2022; Ref: scu.136587 The post Ramsey v Director of Public...
View ArticleButler v Easton: QBD 1970
The initial formalities of a request for a specimen of blood from a driver took place at one police station, but no doctor was available there and the suspect was taken to another police station where...
View ArticleEdmond v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 23 Feb 2006
The defendant appealed his conviction for driving with excess alcohol. The readings on the Intoximeter were too wide apart and the officer requested a blood specimen. He complained that he had not been...
View ArticleFivepounds.Co.UK Ltd, Regina (on the Application Of) v Transport for London:...
Challenge to withdrawal of fleet notification for London Congestion Charge. Citations: [2005] EWHC 3002 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Greater London Act 1999 295 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road...
View ArticleWhittle v Kirby: 1946
A special reason for not disqualifying a driver is one which is special to the facts of the case and not personal to the offender. Citations: [1946] 2 All ER 252 Cited by: Cited – Director of Public...
View ArticleJacobs v Reid: 1974
The test for whether magistrates may find special reasons for not disqualifying a driver is not a subjective one as to what the defendant thought. Citations: [1974] RLT 71 Jurisdiction: England and...
View ArticleBell v Ingham: QBD 1968
The plaintiff was charged with an attempting to commit an offence of taking and driving away a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner. The Justices fined him andpound;10 and ordered that the...
View ArticleClarke v Winchurch: CA 1969
A car driver, was pulling out across the front of a stationary bus in order to turn right down the road in the direction opposite to that in which the bus was facing. He collided with a moped which had...
View ArticleLevine v Morris: 1970
Lord Widgery said: ‘All motorists are guilty of errors of one kind or another, and I think it would be quite unreal if roads were designed on the assumption that no driver would ever err.’ Judges: Lord...
View ArticleRegina v Tate: CACD 1977
At the close of a prosecution case for driving with excess alcohol, the appellant stated that he would not give or call evidence. He then submitted that the jury should be directed to consider only the...
View ArticleRegina vCliff: CACD 25 Nov 2004
The defendant had been convicted of an affray. A car was used in the course of the defendant getting to the scene. He appealed against a sentence of imprisonment and disqualification from driving for...
View ArticleRegina v Hall: CACD 2004
The court considered the propriety of making an anti-social behaviour at the same time as sentencing for traffic offences: ‘There is nothing wrong in principle in making such an order when there are...
View ArticleBetts v Stevens: 1910
The defendant, an Automobile Association patrolman was accused of obstructing a police constable in the execution of his duty. The police had set a speed trap, and the defendant had warned approaching...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosections v D: QBD 21 Feb 2006
Judges: Lord Justice Richards Citations: [2006] EWHC 314 (Admin Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.239877 The post Director of Public Prosections v D: QBD 21...
View ArticleMayon v Director of Public Prosecutions: 1988
In the absence of evidence of calibration of an Intoximeter either before or after the second specimen was produced, there had been a failure to prove the precondition that the machine was working...
View ArticleDirector of Public Prosecutions v Crofton: 1994
The court identified three elements to be taken into account to see whether a defendant’s failure to provide a specimen of breath when required to do was reasonable: ‘(i) the need for evidence of...
View ArticleSmith v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 30 Jan 2007
The defendant appealed his conviction for driving with excess alcohol, arguing that the prosecution had failed to provide the roadside breath test figures. Held: The appeal failed, and was indeed...
View ArticleBritannia Parking Group Ltd v Semark-Jullien: Misc 29 Jul 2020
Citations: [2020] EW Misc 12 (CC) Links: Bailii Statutes: Bills of Exchange Act 1882 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.655643 The post Britannia Parking Group...
View ArticleMcKenna v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 8 Apr 2005
The defendant appealed a conviction for driving whilst disqualified. He said that an officer’s identification of him should have been excluded from evidence because no identification parade had been...
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