Introduction to Road Traffic Offences

Winston Gordon · Philip Cuddy · Andy Wesson

янв. 1998 г. · Waterside Press

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This introductory handbook provides information for a wide range of people – including new magistrates, police officers, motorists – who need to know about everyday road traffic offences in a concise and accessible way. It will also be of considerable us to lawyers who need key information in a manageable form, the three expert authors having distilled the advice in the book from years of first-hand experience working in the courts. The book deals with a range of common offences as well as endorsement and disqualification within the following chapters:

1. Introduction and general Outline

2. Dangerous and careless Driving (including Accidents)

3. Offences Involving Drink and Drugs

4. Legal Obligations and Documentation

5. Theft, Taking Vehicles and Like Matters

6. Miscellaneous Offences

7. Endorsement and Penalty Points

8. Disqualification from Driving

9. Special Sentencing Considerations

The book also includes the Magistrates’ Association Sentencing Guidelines as they affect Road Traffic offences and a note of the Endorsement Codes used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

Produced under the auspices of the Justices’ Clerks’ Society.