June 2011
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Failing to Furnish Driver Details Contrary to s172 Road Traffic Act 1988

My client was accused of not replying to a s172 notice aka the ‘NIP.’ My client successfully contended that the presumption of service by first class post should be rebutted on the basis that his post often goes missing as he lives on a development which shares its postcode with a number of other properties. […]

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Drink Driving Contrary to section 5 Road Traffic Act 1988

My client was convicted of drink driving by ‘pushing’ his broken down vehicle (it was accepted that he had only returned to his car after a night out drinking to push it off double yellow lines into a parking bay further up the street). He, however, successfully argued special reasons (distance pushed) for not receiving […]

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Greater Manchester Police v Hookway – Implications Upon Police Bail

This is a very significant case in relation to police bail.   The Court has held that the custody clock does not stop once an individual under investigation is released from custody on bail.  The implication therefore is that once an individual is arrested the Police are now unlikely to be able to release them on […]

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