Drink Driving Offence in UK Law

  • R v Majewski
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Abril 1976
    ... ... Later he committed a further offence for which he was given an additional sentence of ... defence as to the effect of the drugs and drink the appellant had taken, the learned judge, in ... , and stealing a motor car to taking and driving it away without the owner's consent ... ...
  • Nettleship v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Junio 1971
    ... ... Weston and "any person driving the car with his permission" against liability at ... a car before, or has taken too much to drink, or has poor eyesight or hearings and, ... , indeed, there was a conviction for that offence ... 67 If the criminal law ... ...
  • Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 1968
    ... ... 84 holding that this was an absolute offence for which mens rea was not necessary ... 2 I ... and exposes unsound meat for sale, or sells drink to a drunk man or certain parts of his factory ... 18th November, 1966, the Appellant was driving a mini-van. He was stopped by a Police officer ... ...
  • R v Moloney
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 1985
    ... ... The party was a convivial one. Drink flowed freely. Both Patrick Moloney and the ... in the blood above which it becomes an offence to drive a motor vehicle ... 21 Following his ... of negligence or of careless or dangerous driving." ... 45 He said, at p ... ...
  • R v Petherick (Rosie Lee)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 Octubre 2012
    ... ... offences of causing death by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol in a case in ... the principal things which made this offence worse when compared with others of its kind, and ... about the amount that she had had to drink. Next, she was driving a car which had been ... ...
  • R v Boswell
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 Junio 1984
    ... ... the views of this Court on this type of offence ... 2 It is clear from the ... to cases of causing death by reckless driving and reckless driving itself ... 3 ... come before the Court, it is plain that drink was the basis of the trouble ... ...
  • DPP v Newbury ; DPP v Jones
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Mayo 1976
    ... ... , when his mind is not affected by drink or drugs, if he did not foresee that his act ... no new departure in relation to the offence of involuntary manslaughter. Insofar as the ... ...
  • Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
    • Privy Council
    • 05 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... who attended judged her to be the worse for drink. Asked how she had come to the store, she said ... police required her to say who had been driving her car at about 2.30 a.m. when she would have ... )(a) of the 1988 Act at her trial for the offence charged under section 5 of that Act. On this ... ...
  • Thompson v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Febrero 1997
    ... ... in connection with a drink and driving offence to which she pleaded guilty ... ...
  • Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Marzo 1984
    ... ... of drivers of motor vehicles suspected of driving with an alcoholic concentration above the limit ... which people are convicted of a criminal offence" ... 49 The second ... the liability of a person accused of a drink-driving offence to disqualification, fine and ... ...
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