The transport of motorway maintenance vehicles and plant to and from sites on the back of a low loader is not sufficiently closely connected with the use of such machines on the motorways, to attract exemption as for such use from the general regulation of transport, including in particular, the need for the use of … Continue reading Vehicle Inspectorate v Bruce Cook Road Planing Ltd and Another: HL 8 Jul 1999
The defendant driver had been stopped and required to provide a specimen of breath. She failed to do so, and gave no reason. At trial she produced nedical evidence, accepted by the magistrates, that she suffered asthma and a hyperventilation syndrome, but she was convicted after the magistrates concluded that she should have told the … Continue reading Piggott v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 8 Feb 2008
The defendant appealed his conviction for obtaining property by deception where part of the offence had taken place abroad. Held: Smith should be overturned. The last act or terminatory theory remains the binding common law of England and Wales. The correct rule was that before an English court could try an offence it was necessary, … Continue reading Regina v Manning: CACD 24 Jun 1998
The court considered the nature of the 1949 Act: ‘The object of the statute is this: it is to have all our ancient highways mapped out, put on record and made conclusive, so that people can know what their rights are. Our old highways came into existence before 1835. They were created in the days … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Hood: CA 1975
Citations: [1998] EWHC Admin 778 Links: Bailii Statutes: Transport Act 1968 97(1)(a)(i) Road Traffic Updated: 27 May 2022; Ref: scu.138899
The ‘Permissible maximum weight’ of a vehicle train is the aggregate marked gross weight of the van and the trailer. Citations: Times 11-Apr-1994 Statutes: Transport Act 1968 97(1)(a) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Road Traffic Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.89307
A lorry used for delivering skips was not used for refuse collection and was subject to the tachograph regime. The providing of skips for rubbish was a purely commercial enterprise not carried out for a public authority. Times 11-Jul-1996, [1997] RTR 102 Transport Act 1968 97(1)(a)(iii) England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Vehicle Inspectorate … Continue reading Swain v McCaul and Others: QBD 11 Jul 1996