Fearnley 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 ArticleJones v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 22 Oct 2004
Citations: [2004] EWHC 3165 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Road Traffic Act 1988 5(1)(a) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic Updated: 11 October 2022; Ref: scu.226906 The post Jones v...
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 ArticleCourtney v Murphy: CA 14 Dec 2001
Citations: [2001] EWCA Civ 2059 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic, Personal Injury Updated: 12 October 2022; Ref: scu.218606 The post Courtney v Murphy: CA 14 Dec 2001 appeared...
View ArticleEssen v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 12 May 2005
Citations: [2005] EWHC 1077 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Road Traffic Act 1988 4(1) 3 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Stavrinou, Regina (on the Application Of) v Horseferry Road...
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 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 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 ArticleSmith, Regina (on the Application Of) v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn...
Citations: [2003] EWHC 1080 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Road Traffic Act 1988 143(2) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic, Crime Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.185356 The post Smith,...
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. Citations: [2006] EWHC 1570...
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. Judges: Toulson LJ, Kenneth Parker J,...
View ArticleRehill v Rider Holdings Ltd: CA 16 May 2012
The claimant had been injured, being hit by the defendant’s bus. Judges: Ward, Richards, Patten LJJ Citations: [2012] EWCA Civ 628 Links: Bailii Statutes: Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945...
View ArticleRegina v Duck: CACD 3 Aug 1999
The defendant appealed a sentence of four years for causing death by dangerous driving. He had overtaken in a lorry, crossing double white lines, and crashing into a car coming the other way. He was of...
View ArticleRegina v Wickens: 1958
The court set out the requirements to be met by a defendant on an argument that there existed special reasons for him not to be disqualified: (1) a special reason must be a mitigating or extenuating...
View ArticleCarey v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset: CA 7 Apr 1995
A vehicle must obstruct persons using the road, not just the road itself, before it can be removed under the Regulations. ‘Obstruction’ is relative to the users of the highway, not to the occupation of...
View ArticleRegina v Beckford: CACD 27 Jan 1995
Procedures are needed so that cars which have been involved in major accidents or crashes and criminal proceedings are envisaged should only be destroyed with consent. Neil LJ considered the law of...
View ArticleScott and Another v Westminster City Council: CA 20 Mar 1995
A vendor’s ‘hot chestnut’ stall was an ‘item deposited on highway’ and could be removed by the Council under the 1980 Act. Waite LJ said: ‘The verb ‘to deposit’ is a term of wide connotation, apt to...
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