DPP v Harris
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1995 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
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3 cases
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R v Backshall
...the question whether such a defence is available when the charge is one of careless driving is not finally settled. Reference is made to DPP v. Harris [1995] 1 Cr.App.R. 170 where McCowan L.J: "…inclined to the view that necessity would never be available as a defence to a charge of driving......
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DPP v Tomkinson
...by terror.” 18Authority for that statement of principle is DPP -v- Bell referred to earlier in this judgment. 19In DPP -v- Harris (1995) RTR 100, this Court had to consider whether the defence of necessity was available to the driver of an emergency vehicle when that driver was charged with......
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George Gilfillan V. Alexander Barbour
...of other authorities were cited to me, which I can deal with more briefly. Wood v Richards [1977] R.T.R. 201 and D.P.P. v Harris [1995] 1 Cr. App. R. 170 were concerned with criminal liability under section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, a matter which raises different issues from those wi......