London safer lorry scheme in force after cyclist deaths – BBC News
‘A ban on “unsafe lorries” in London, introduced as part of efforts to protect cyclists, has come into force.’
BBC News, 1st September 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: road safety
The Law of the Road – BBC Unreliable Evidence
‘Clive Anderson and a panel of legal experts discuss how changes to our traffic laws could reduce the numbers of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians killed or injured on the road?’
BBC Unreliable Evidence, 27th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Driverless cars legal review – only one step on the journey – Technology Law Update
‘The UK government has reported on its major review of the legal framework for the next stage for driverless cars. In The Pathway to Driverless Cars the Department for Transport sets out government thinking on what needs to change to support testing soon to be rolled out on British roads, and to pave the way for increasing autonomy into the future.’
Technology Law Update, 11th February 2015
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
New code to govern driverless car testing in the UK – OUT-LAW.com
”Driverless’ cars being tested on public roads in the UK will need to be fitted with data recorders, the government has said.’
Full story
OUT-LAW.com, 11th February 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
DVLA suffers High Court defeat for revoking elderly woman’s licence based on ‘age alone’ – Daily Telegraph
‘A 78-year-old woman who caused a three car pile-up has won the right to drive again, as judge rules that medical checks as well as on-road appraisals are necessary.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Driverless cars – the top 10 legal issues – Technology Law Update
‘The UK government’s announcement last week of the results of its competition for driverless car testing is an exciting development. We expect an announcement of the results of a review of the regulatory regime to follow shortly. As we wait for these results, we identify the top ten areas where we think the law will need to be updated to allow this important technology to move forward.’
Technology Law Update, 8th December 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
Government gives green light to level crossing reform – Law Commission
‘The Government has accepted the majority of the reforms to level crossing law recommended by the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission, and has committed to review the remainder.’
Law Commission, 5th November 2014
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
Bite Size RTA Case Law Update – Zenith Chambers
‘Road traffic accidents are notoriously fact specific, but looking at those cases which go to trial can be helpful in terms of understanding what judges think is important. Here I look at three very different recent cases. In Jade Christian v. South East London & Kent Bus Co.the court reiterated that appellate courts have to exercise the greatest restraint before overturning findings of fact made at first instance. In Gray v. Botwright the Court of Appeal went against the general principle that drivers are entitled to assume that no traffic will be crossing against a red light. In Gupta v. Armstrong & Anor a coach driver who was carefully executing a manoeuvre and failed to see a pedestrian who was trying to flag him down to board was not found to have been negligent to any degree.’
Full story (PDF)
Zenith Chambers, 22nd July 2014
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
Sheppey crossing crash drivers offered alertness course – BBC News
‘Drivers who would have been prosecuted over the Sheppey crossing crash that injured more than 200 people are being offered a course instead, police said.’
BBC News, 20th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Emma Way: Driver in #bloodycyclists Twitter storm convicted after knocking cyclist off bike – The Independent
“A 22-year-old woman who posted about ‘bloody cyclists’ on Twitter hours after knocking a cyclist off his bike has been convicted of failing to stop and failing to report an accident, but cleared of driving without due care and attention at Norfolk Magistrates Court today.”
The Independent, 19th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Thousands of dangerous drink-drivers are reoffenders – BBC News
“As new figures show the number of people killed in drink-driving crashes rose by 17%, the BBC has discovered that thousands of drink-drivers are repeat offenders.”
BBC News, 27th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
JR reaction: “a dark day” for accident victims, says APIL – Litigation Futures
“The High Court’s rejection of the challenge to the RTA portal fee cut represents ‘a dark day’ for accident victims, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has claimed.”
Litigation Futures, 4th March 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Manslaughter charges dropped over firework display near M5 pileup – The Guardian
“Manslaughter charges have been dropped against a man who organised a fireworks display next to the site of a motorway pileup that killed seven people.”
The Guardian, 15th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gap in the UK’s law on cycling? – BBC News
“A driver opens his car door. There’s a collision with a cyclist. Is this a criminal act?”
BBC News, 15th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Newly qualified drivers may face ban on non-family passengers – The Guardian
“Newly qualified drivers could be restricted from carrying non-family members under proposals being considered by the government to cut the number of road accidents involving teenagers.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Children, Seatbelts and Parental Duties: strap up or pay up? – Zenith Chambers
“It has long been accepted that a failure to wear a seatbelt will affect proportion of damages that a Claimant can receive for an accident, if that failure caused or contributed to his injury. This new case from April 2012 applies the same reasoning to the use of child seats and the apportionment of liability.”
Full story (PDF)
Zenith Chambers, 22nd October 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
Mother found negligent for child’s injuries after using wrong car seat – Daily Telegraph
“A mother who put her three-year-old daughter in a car booster seat has been found partly responsible for her crippling car crash injuries by the High Court because it was the wrong seat for her age.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Firefighter Mark Rutland wins seatbelt court battle – Daily Telegraph
“A fireman was cleared of not wearing a seatbelt after he said a policewoman told him she had to book him because she had targets to hit.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Drug-driving law could be toughened – The Guardian
“The government is assembling a panel of experts to look at introducing a law against taking drugs and driving, and to assess the means of testing and the possible legal limits for motorists.”
The Guardian, 4th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Cusack v Harrow London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Cusack v Harrow London Borough Council: [2011] EWCA Civ 1514; [2011] WLR (D) 357
“A highway authority had power under section 66(2) of the Highways Act 1980, but not under section 80, to erect posts so as to prevent vehicular access to a frontager’s forecourt in order to safeguard users of the highway. If the highway authority exercised that power the frontager would become entitled to compensation under section 66(8) of the 1980 Act.”
WLR Daily, 7th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
