James 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 ArticleAttwater, Regina v: CACD 14 Sep 2010
Citations: [2010] EWCA Crim 2399, [2011] RTR 12 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime, Road Traffic Updated: 25 November 2022; Ref: scu.426767 The post Attwater, Regina v: CACD 14 Sep...
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 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 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. Citations: [1959] WLR 781 Statutes: Metropolitan Police...
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 ArticleRichardson v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 20 Feb 2003
The defendant appealed against his conviction for driving with excess alcohol, saying that the device used to make the measurement did not have type approval. Held: The appeal failed. Stanley Burnton J...
View ArticleBugge v Taylor: 1941
A branch of a road which leads into and continues out of the place in question, such as in this case, a forecourt may qualify as a road. Citations: [1941] 1 KB 198 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited...
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. Citations: [1958] 1 WLR 1106 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: Cited –...
View ArticleSeddon v Binions: CA 1978
The Court gave guidance on the proper method of interpreting a term of a motor insurance policy which defines the limitations of use subject to which the policy provides cover. Roskill LJ: ‘Inevitably,...
View ArticlePleydell, Regina v: CACD 20 May 2005
Evidence of the consumption of cocaine by the driver was a relevant circumstance admissible under a prosecution for dangerous driving. Citations: [2005] EWCA Crim 1447, [2006] 1 Cr App R 12 Links:...
View ArticleNembhard v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 21 Jan 2009
The defendant appealed against his conviction for failing to produce his driving documents, saying that the local police had stopped some 55 times in the previous 12 months, and that the request was...
View ArticleAXA Insurance UK Ltd v EUI Ltd (T/A Elephant Insurance): QBD 14 May 2020
The claimant insurer had insured a garage in respect of a car it used for loan to customers when their own car was being repaired. There was a collision on the customer driving home from work. The...
View ArticleMohindra v Director of Public Prosecutions; Browne v The Chief Constable Of...
The defendants had been required to provide information leading to the identification of the driver. In one case the defendant was the registered keepr, and in the second not. Held: the obligations...
View ArticleRouse v Squires: CA 22 Mar 1973
Citations: [1973] EWCA Civ 9, [1972] 2 All ER 903, [1973] 2 WLR 925, [1973] RTR 550, [1973] QB 889 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Citing: Cited – Dymond v Pearce CA 13-Jan-1972 A...
View ArticleThornhill, Regina (on the Application of) v Uxbridge Magistrates Court: Admn...
Judges: Silber J Citations: [2008] EWHC 508 (Admin) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic, Magistrates Updated: 27 November 2022; Ref: scu.266240 The post Thornhill, Regina (on the...
View ArticleCooper v Hawkins: 1904
Vehicles driven by Crown servants on Crown business were not subject to the speed limits laid down by the local authority under the Locomotives Act 1865. Citations: [1904] 2 KB 164 Jurisdiction:...
View ArticleLord Advocate v Dumbarton District Council: HL 1989
The House was asked whether the Ministry of Defence was entitled to cone off a section of the A814 road without the permission of the roads authority under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 or the local...
View ArticleGoodes v East Sussex County Council: CA 7 Jan 1999
A council which failed to maintain a road ice free when they had decided on the need to prevent icing, and had had the opportunity to prevent it, but failed to take it, were in breach of statutory duty...
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