Road Traffic Offences in UK Law

  • R v Lawrence (Stephen)
    • House of Lords
    • 19 March 1981
    ...... driving, contrary to section 1 of the Road Traffic Act 1972. . 9 ... history of those road traffic offences that had for so many years prior to 1977 been ......
  • Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
    • Privy Council
    • 05 December 2000
    ...... their powers under section 172(2)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, the police required her to say ... 2 The respondent was prosecuted for two offences: theft; and driving a car after consuming ......
  • R v Paul Maurice Needham and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 April 2016
    ...... of the effect of the introduction into the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (RTOA) of sections 35A ... and, in broad terms, do not apply to offences committed wholly or partly before that date. ......
  • Re Attorney General's Reference (No.152 of 2002); R v Robert Charles Cooksley
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 April 2003
    ......The Government's road safety strategy and casualty reduction target for ...And this is despite the vast growth in traffic since the beginning of the last century. In 1930 ... the Advice, which indicates that driving offences causing death are among those most frequently ......
  • Pamplin v Express Newspapers Ltd (Note)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 February 1985
    ...... to cause concern to the Police and to the traffic authorities, and in the summer of 1979, partly ... a quite separate point under S.168(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 was dismissed. On 21st October ...Pamplin of offences under S.168(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1972. ......
  • White v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 March 1968
    ......46, Northbrook Road, Ilford, Essex, where he then lived. The ... 478) an amendment was made in the Road Traffic Act 1962, section 51, subsection (1) to section ......
  • Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
    • House of Lords
    • 31 March 1971
    ...... various forms with regard to particular offences that it shall be a defence to prove various ... or cause to be kept records required by the Road Traffic Act 1960 with regard to the driver of a ......
  • Sheldrake v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 14 October 2004
    ...... 1 Sections 5(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and 11(2) of the Terrorism Act ... to the rule in Woolmington's case, to "offences where onus of proof is specially dealt with by ......
  • R v Looseley
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ......In R v Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court, Ex p Bennett [1994] 1 AC ... not instigate the commission of criminal offences in order to punish them. But what counts for this ... criminal design; to expose the illicit traffic, the prohibited publication, the fraudulent use ......
  • R v Ashton; R v Draz; R v O'Reilly
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 05 April 2006
    ...... this applicant, the proceedings for the offences with which he was charged can only be instituted ...(c) an offence under section 103(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (driving a motor vehicle while ......
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