Drink Driving and The ‘Hip Flask’ defence
The effect of S.5(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is to create an offence where a person drives or attempts to drive a motor vehicle, or where a person…
COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Judgement September 2020
If your Insurers have denied to cover you for COVID 19 business interruption this case heard on 15th September 2020 should give you hope On 15th Sept 2020, the High…
Inheritance and Divorce?
Could Your Ex Claim Your Inheritance If You Divorce? If you have received an inheritance whilst married or are due to receive an inheritance, you will seek to argue that…
The DPP v Sugden
In this case the prosecution was unable to produce the original MGDDA form in a drink driving trial, or the original printout of the result, but instead they produced a…
Drink Driving – Defences in Court
To be guilty of drinking and driving the prosecutor has to make a magistrates’ court sure that you were driving a vehicle and that the proportion of alcohol in your…
Can you challenge the reading from a breathalyser device with evidence of how much alcohol you had consumed?
In 1988 Lord Griffiths gave a House of Lords decision in a drink driving case. In this case of Cracknell v Willis [1988] AC 450 he stated that it was…
Drug Driving – Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Cannabis)
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabionol (THC) is the drug is found in cannabis and it is what gives the user a sense of euphoria.THC’s chemical structure is like one of the brain’s natural chemicals,…
Court Form N244, Court Process, Court Hearings, Court Bundles
If you need a court to do something – which the court does by making Court Orders – it is done by making applications. Applications in UK courts are prepared in…
Breaching a consent order
Once the Court has approved a draft consent order it is legally binding and cannot be changed unless an appeal is listed and is then upheld by a judge.The implication…