FAILURE TO AID INJURED MAN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 18

FAILURE TO AID INJURED MAN

Driver’s Appeal Allowed A driver involved in an accident could not be convicted of failing to render all practicable assistance to an injured person unless it was proved that he knew that injury had resulted from the accident. Mr Justice Henry held ’n a written judgment delivered yesterday. Holding that there was no proof of this essential ingredient in the evidence his Honour allowed an appeal by Arthur John Warrington against a conviction of failing to render assistance to a motor-cyclist injured in a collision with Warrington’s car. His Honour dismissed Warrington’s appeal against three years’ disqualification from driving imposed on further convictions of failing to stop and failing to ascertain if any person had been been injured in the accident. He considered the penalty was lenient and if the appeal had been frivolous he would have Increased the period of disqualification.

The convictions and fines of £2O on each of these charges were affirmed. Mr B. J. Drake appeared for the appellant at the hearing in the Supreme Court on September 4, and Mr P. T. Mahon represented the Crown.

LEGAL ARGUMENT IN MOWER CASE Agreement Claimed To Be A Deed Legal argument on whether an agreement signed by Pyramid Machines, Ltd., and W. H. Price and Son, Ltd., on March 31, 1955. was a deed was submitted by Mr R. A. Young, when the mower dispute hearing continued in the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr Justice Adams. Appearing for Price and Son. Mr Young presented arguments in support of the contention that the agreement in respect of the manufacture and delivery of the Pyramid hydraulic mower was a deed.