A Practitioners' Guide to Local Highway Authority Liability for Road Deaths & Injuries

A Practitioners' Guide to Local Highway Authority Liability for Road Deaths & Injuries

This Guide is intended to be a simple outline of the basic legal duties of local authorities in relation to road safety and highway maintenance, and their potential liability to criminal prosecution or civil litigation in the event of a death or injury on the highway resulting wholly or partly from highway factors. The Guide is not intended to be an academic or authoritative text.

This Guide is based on the law as it stands at the time of writing in October 2010. The interpretation of the relevant law is that of the author alone: TMS Consultancy accepts no responsibility for the consequences of any reliance on the information contained in this document.

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