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High Court on highway widths
Charles Streeten analyses the High Court’s rejection of a challenge to confirmation of a definitive map modification order.
Imposing the brakes on car cruising
Shabinah Ladha discusses Mr Justice Ritchie’s approach in justifying the continuation of ‘car cruising’ injunctions across Birmingham and the Black Country and why nothing short of an injunction will do in curbing street racing.
Aarhus cost protection in traffic order challenges
In a recent judgment, the High Court considered the availability of Aarhus Convention costs protection in statutory challenges to the making of traffic orders, and the need for procedural rigour on the part of defendants who wish to contest the issue. Brendan Brett analyses the ruling.
The section 58 defence in the Highways Act 1980
The Court of Appeal recently allowed a claimant’s appeal against a judge’s decision to reject his claim for liability against a county council in relation to a hole in a grass verge which caused him to fall off his bicycle. Martin Porter KC and Anastasia Karseras explain why.
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Walker Morris supports Tower Hamlets Council in first known Remediation Contribution Order application issued by local authority
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