R v Craig Bannister
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Justice Thomas |
| Judgment Date | 28 July 2009 |
| Neutral Citation | [2009] EWCA Crim 1571 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | Case No: 2009/01281/D1 |
| Date | 28 July 2009 |
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3 cases
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The Queen (on the application of Ann Torpey) v Director of Public Prosecutions
...skill or lack of special skill was not a circumstance to which the court could have regard pursuant to section 2A(3): R v Bannister [2009] EWCA Crim 1571, [2010] 1 WLR 23 Causing death by careless driving is an offence contrary to section 2B of the Act. Section 3ZA of the Act provides tha......
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Patrick David Lammond Price (1st Appellant) Colin James Bell (2nd Appellant) v R
...in Adomako [1995] 1 AC 171 at pages 184 and 187 (per Lord Mackay of Clashfern, with whose speech the House agreed). In Bannister [2009] EWCA Crim 1571, [2010] 1 WLR 870, (Thomas LJ, Collins and Owen JJ) the Court of Appeal Criminal Division held that a driver's special skill or lack of spe......
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R v Udu (Ochuko)
...Simply because a police officer might act unlawfully does not entitle someone to drive dangerously. In the case of the R v Bannister [2009] EWCA Crim. 1571, the court observed that a police officer even responding to an emergency was not entitled to drive dangerously. It simply cannot be as......
1 books & journal articles
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Court of Appeal
...Council is perhaps open to question.Alisdair A. GillespieRelevance of Driving Skill to a Charge of DangerousDrivingR vBannister [2009] EWCA Crim 1571Keywords Dangerous driving; Police traffic officers; Road traffic of-fences, Driver abilityOn 13 January 2008, the appellant was on duty as......