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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS V JUSTIN ROY NOE (2000)

PUBLISHED April 3, 2000
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The magistrates had erred in law in concluding that the defendant's request to see a solicitor or alternatively a law book to verify the legality of the police request for a specimen of breath had amounted to a reasonable excuse under s.7 Road Traffic Act 1988 for failing to provide the specimen; Smith v. Hand (1986) RTR 265 distinguished.

DC (Roch LJ, Harrison J)

03/04/2000

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