Book Review: Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences
| Date | 01 October 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X9606900414 |
| Published date | 01 October 1996 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK REVIEWS
WILKINSON'S ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES, by P. Wallis,
Judge
Halnan, N. McKittrick, K.
McCormac
and
P. Niekirk.
IT
Law &
Tax.
Hardback
£215.
Serving police officers, in the days when attendance at magistrates'
courts was a regular weeklyfeature, were always envious of lawyers who
were able to oppose them on traffic matters armed with a copy of
Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences -Baker and Wilkie usually being the
best they could run to. Then, Wilkinson's consisted of one volume. Now
that your reviewer has the 17th edition, consisting of two volumes and
a plastic carry case, he feels confident that he has the best possible
reference book from which to quote.
The law is as stated on March 1, 1995, to which supplements are
provided. This latest edition deals, inter alia, with the Vehicle Excise
and Registration Act 1994 which came into force on September 1, 1994
and seeks not only to consolidate the pre-existing legislation, but also
to remove or amend superfluous or erroneous provisions therein. All the
latest germane cases are included inthe edition, eg, DPP v. Butterworth
(1994),
DPP
v. Johnson (1994), Drake v.
DPP
(1994), Hayes v. DPP
(1993), and R. v. Rayner and Wing (1994) to call attention to just a few
of the flood of cases which have been covered. Volume two contains the
sources, ie, all the legislation you are likely to require.
Although there are challengers in this field, Wilkinson's Road Traffic
remains the best. It is to be appreciated that at £215 it is beyond the
individual police pocket, but a place should remain for a copy in the
library and training departments.
THE EXECUTION OF SHERIFFS' WARRANTS, by J.A. Keith,
W.B. Podevin
and
C. Sandbrook.
Barry
Rose Law Publishers.
Hard-
back
£30.
A recent case reported in The Times, viz., Mcleod v. Butterwick caught
my eye because it dealt with sheriffs' warrants and brought to mind
childhood reading of Robin
of
Sherwood.
We still have sheriffs and they still execute warrants: the case
recorded in the headnote that, "Where a sheriff already had walk-in
possession of goods under a writ of fieri facias and, seeking to gain
actual possession of the goods he found the householder away and the
house locked, he could lawfully break the lock in order to gain access
to the house and seize the goods."
Should you ever need to assist a sheriff and ensure no breach of the
peace occurred, this would be one of the books from which to seek
guidance.
370 The Police Journal October 1996
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