Dangerous Driving Causing Death in UK Law

  • Re Attorney General's Reference (No.152 of 2002); R v Robert Charles Cooksley
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 Abril 2003
    ... ... as to sentencing for the offence of causing death by dangerous driving and careless driving ... ...
  • R v Lawrence (Stephen)
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Marzo 1981
    ... ... 1980 of Stephen Richard Lawrence for causing death by reckless driving should be restored. In ... objectively blameworthy as well as dangerous, while in common speech it is possible to ... ...
  • Nettleship v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Junio 1971
    ... ... Weston and "any person driving the car with his permission" against liability at ... He was charged with causing death by driving in a manner dangerous to the ... ...
  • R v Paul Maurice Needham and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 Abril 2016
    ... ... offenders to have been disqualified from driving and to have had a custodial sentence imposed at ... clear example of this would be a case of causing death by dangerous driving where the driving took ... ...
  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Mayo 1932
    ... ... a man sold a gun which he knew was dangerous for the use of the purchaser's son. The gun ... by a wheel coming off a van which he was driving for his employer and which it was the duty of the ... the case of a manufacturer negligently causing an article to be dangerous and selling it in that ... from a retail grocer on account of the death of his son by ptomaine poisoning, caused by ... ...
  • Hyam v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 1974
    ... ... wilfully to expose another to the risk of death or grievous bodily harm in the sense of really ... injury which is "permanent or dangerous if it be such as seriously to interfere with ... of negligence or of careless or dangerous driving." ... 32 There is also a ... , which extended the felonious offence to causing grievous bodily harm by any means if done "with ... ...
  • R v Moloney
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 1985
    ... ... that when doing the act which causes the death of another the accused either: ... cases of negligence or of careless or dangerous driving." ... 45 He ... : "to kill with the intention of causing grievous bodily harm is murder only if grievous ... ...
  • R v Majewski
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Abril 1976
    ... ... serious violent crime when the penalties of death or transportation applied or where there was ... at the time of committing an offence causing death can only, when it is available at all, have ... 6244, 1975) that a new offence of "dangerous intoxication" should be created. But in the ... , and stealing a motor car to taking and driving it away without the owner's consent ... ...
  • R v Jack Richardson; R v Sheppard; R v Abery; R v Little; R v Poel; R v Robertson
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 Diciembre 2006
    ... ... be taken when sentencing for offences of causing death by careless driving when over the ... 1988 (as opposed to causing death by dangerous driving contrary to section 1 of the Road Traffic ... ...
  • Hussien v Chong Fook Kam
    • Privy Council
    • 1969
    ... ... station that when the complainant was driving home with four friends at 9.15 p.m. a piece of ... and the latter makes it an offence to cause death by dangerous or reckless driving. The plaintiffs ... offence of reckless and dangerous driving causing death. In any case of wrongful arrest it is ... ...
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