Burns v Currell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1963
CourtDivisional Court
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31 cases
  • Charli Lewington (Claimant v The Motor Insurance Bureau
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 27 October 2017
    ...that "one of the uses was on roads" and the answer should have been "yes", applying the case law and in particular the leading case of Burns v Currell [1963] 2 All ER 297 and Lord Parker CJ's classic interpretation of the words now in section 185, a fortiori (submits the Appellant) once on......
  • Phillip Coates v Crown Prosecution Service
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 29 July 2011
    ...the appellant. 4 The District Judge recorded in his judgment that he had been referred to a number of authorities: Burns v Currell [1963] 2 QB 433; Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Constabulary v F (A Juvenile) [1987] RTR 378; Director of Public Prosecutions v Saddington [2000] EWHC Adm......
  • An application for a writ of HABEAS CORPUS AD SUBJICIENDUM R Lee v DONCASTER & South HUMBER Healthcare NHS
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 6 November 2002
    ...capable of being propelled" as meaning that the vehicle is "reasonably capable of being propelled" by the pedals. (See Burns v Currell (1963) 2 QB 433 and Chief Constable of the North Yorkshire Police v Saddington, 26 October 2000 (Unreported) CO/2184/2000). The critical finding of fact in ......
  • DPP v King
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 February 2008
    ...21).” 9 The leading judgment was given by Pill LJ, with whom Bell J agreed. In the course of his judgment, Pill LJ said this: “12. In Burns v Currell [1963] 2 All ER 297 the Divisional Court had to consider whether a mechanically propelled vehicle known as a Go-Kart was a motor vehicle with......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 51-3, August 1987
    • 1 August 1987
    ...the alterations by removal of parts had changed the original status of the machine before he had acquired it. Thus, in Burns v. Currell [1963] 2 Q.B. 433, the Divisional Court held that where certain vital parts had been removed from a go-kart, the justices were not entitled to hold that it......
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 56-1, February 1992
    • 1 February 1992
    ...did not require anHGVlicence, the court statedits opinion that the justices ought to have convicted on that charge also.In Burns v Carrell[1963]2 QB 433, where the question was whether ago-kart was 'intended or adapted' for use on a road, the court applied thetest of whether a reasonable pe......
  • RIG, AND WHETHER IT QUALIFIES AS A MOTOR VEHICLE
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition R
    • 6 February 2019
    ...a reasonable man looking at it, would say that one of its uses, would be a road use. As a matter of fact, the case of Burns v. Currell (1963) 2 Q.B. 433; (1963) 2 All E.R. 297 also cited at page 921 of the Records and was relied on by the Court below, and in which a "Go-Kart", was held not ......

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