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Is a life Sentence for causing death by dangerous driving appropriate?
Careless Driving Dangerous Driving Drink Driving Drug Driving
29/06/2022

Is a life Sentence for causing death by dangerous driving appropriate?

Govt introduces life sentence for causing death by dangerous driving and death by careless driving whilst under the influence of drink/drugs? Having received royal assent in May this year, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCSC) from the Read more...
Addiction storyline highlights problem
Drug Driving
14/06/2021

Addiction storyline highlights problem

Many of us were glued to our TV screens for the most recent series of ‘Line of Duty’ with around 12 million viewers watching the final episode. As ever, the storyline of endemic police corruption went through the usual contorted Read more...
Drug Driving: Awareness is the only protection on a unfair playing field
Drug Driving
30/04/2021

Drug Driving: Awareness is the only protection on a unfair playing field

In my view, the law relating to drug driving is fundamentally unfair when compared with the equivalent legislation around drink driving. The legal limits permitted on the amount of drugs taken are extremely low and actually don’t bear any relation Read more...