Recent Book: Butterworths Road Traffic Service
| Date | 01 October 1991 |
| Published date | 01 October 1991 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X9106400415 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
RECENT BOOKS
Butterworths Road Traffic Service. Price £150.
Withoutquestion, dealing with road traffic matters has becomeaspecialism
in itsown right in the Police Service, so much so that those officers who
serve in Traffic Departments throughout the country are trained to a high
standard in order to be operationally effective. They pride themselves on
being 'specialists'
.and
rightly so. Other police officers have a more basic
knowledge, sufficient to performgeneral duties, whilstmostCID officers
are happy to leave traffic matters to 'the specialists in patrol cars', because
of its complexity!
This loose-leafbook, therefore, will unquestionably find its way into
every Traffic Unit in the country, for it provides acomplete coverage of
traffic matters in a way that is easy to understand. Elegantly presented, it
sets out offences in specific divisions, each division separated by a clearly
labelled guide card, 13 dealing with driving offences and ten with vehicle
offences. Each division has its own index supported by a coherent
paragraphing system that greatly enhances its facility for quick reference.
On top of this is an overall index positioned at the rear of the book, plus
a useful appendix on Fixed Penalty Procedures and the appropriate tables
of statutes, statutory instruments and cases, which are so helpful to busy
practitioners.
To ensure that the work is kept up to date, subscribers will receive
three up-dating issues a year, to be filed straight into the loose-leaf binder.
They will also receive aregular road traffic law bulletin.
As well as police officers,
of
course, solicitors, barristers, justices'
clerks, even magistrates, who are regularly faced with decisions to make
on road traffic matters will find this book of enormous value, whether the
problem lies with deciding on the number of permitted hours for drivers
of goods vehicles or the legality of using a motor vehicle for a purpose for
which it was unsuitable. Whateverit is, the details
of
the offenceare there,
including asuggested charge.
In short, with the Road Traffic Service no one need be confused by
traffic law again, not even detectives!
Butterworths Road Traffic Handbook. Price £35. Edited by Stuart
Baker.
Perhaps amisnomer for a book with over one thousand pages, the
handbook, although intended as a companion to the Road Traffic Service
already described, can certainly stand on itsown. Itcontains in chronological
sequence the relevant source material for all road matters, namely,
statutes, from the Transport Act, 1968, to the Road Traffic (Driver
Licensing
and
Information Systems) Act, 1989; twenty statutory
instruments; the Endorsable Offence Codes and Penalty Points details,
plus the complete Highway Code and a covering index.
A helpful preface provides an explanation of the author's intention,
i.e. to give an overview of the law and identify recent and pending changes
in the statutory source material. He indicates that in the handbook, notes
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