“NO ONUS TO GIVE INFORMATION”
CHARGE UNDER TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
Judgment in favour of the defendant was given yesterday by Mr E. C. Lev* vey, S.M., in an action ny the police against Jasper Lovell Nicolls, a sales* man, of New Brighton. Nicolls, who was represented by Mr G. S. Thomas, was charged under the traffic regulations, 1036, with failing to give information sought by the police. Legal argument was heard last month, the Magistrate, in. a reserved ■ judgment' yesterday, dismissing the- information. The Magistrate held-that although the-Motor Vehicles Act left no doubt as to what must' be done on demand by a traffic officer, there was a gap in the wording of the traffic regulations under which Nicolls was charged, and that there was no onus as in this case, on the particular facts to give information and so to be subject to a penalty for failing to do so.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 17
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