Driving Negligence in UK Law
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Riding or Driving to the Danger of the Public
... ... or any other person having the care thereof, or employed in upon or about such carriage, shall through intoxication or negligence or by wanton or furious driving or by or through any other misconduct endanger the safety of any passenger or other person or ... ...
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The Assizes
... ... 'scarpassed him.Herecognisedthecarbutdidnotsee who was driving ... He went totheaccused's addressat11.10 p.m.andasked Mr ... Secondly, was Sainsburyguilty of negligence?Hesubmittednot. Sainsbury wastemporarily ... ...
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The Police and the Law
... ... Recent Judicial Decisions NEGLIGENCE BY PERSON IN STATIONARY VEHICLE: OFFENCE UNDER HIGHWAYS ACT, 1835 Watson ... alleged to be guilty must be acts in connection with the driving of the car: it was not the driving which was negligent there but ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING: NEGLIGENCE R. v. Evans Referring to the offence of causing death by ... ...
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Manslaughter and Dangerous Driving
... ... Manslaughter should require subjective recklessness, while causing death by dangerous driving can be committed by gross negligence without a mental element. • QC, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. 302 ... Manslaughter and Dangerous Driving 'Of course' should, ... ...
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Divisional Court Cases
... ... Dale "S is well known the offence of driving in a dangerous. f\..manner contrary to s. II of the Road Traffic Act ... or obstructed the pedestrian was being driven without negligence. It will be remembered that in Leicester v. Pearson (1952, J.C.L ... ...
- Quarterly Summary
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Reckless and Careless Driving: Is There a Difference?
... ... Section 3 is concerned with negligent behaviour and the criminal law has long differentiated between negligence on the one hand and strict and absolute liability on the other. The former arises where the accused failed to conduct himself as the ... ...
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Careless Driving
... ... be classed as torts, and that, in fact, the police areconstantly having to decide cases where the dividing linebetween criminal and civil negligence is so fine as to bescarcely discernible. Suppose, for example, that the policedecide not to take proceedings in a ' running down ' case, andin the ... ...
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CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE: THE SECOND PLAINTIFF
... ... to a horse which the plaintiff’s servant was riding, by a cart which the servant of the defendant was driving’. The argument was concerned with whose negligence caused the accident. The first sentence of the judgment of Best C.J ... ...
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