Shock News: Judge makes common sense rulling

[BrilloPad]

No, the judge has made a mistake in law; but what can you expect in the UK nowadays?

Well said. All I ever wanted from the family courts is what was in the 1989 Children Act. Never implemented. I dont think any of the other court divisons are any better.

[wendigo100]

Sir Igor Judge, president of the High Court's Queen's Bench Division

You couldn't be anything else with a name like that.

I wonder if he knows Mr Plodd?

[BrilloPad]

You couldn't be anything else with a name like that.

I wonder if he knows Mr Plodd?

There is a judge laws in one divison. A m8 was in front of him once - he is a really bent evil ****.

[Cowboy Bob]

If the sign says 20 on it, and you can read the 20 on it, then clearly unless you are too thick to realise that means 20mph speed limit (in which case you shouldn't be driving) and you exceed 20mph then you are speeding and should get fined. This is pure common sense and I applaud the judge in this case.

The amount of money to be collected is irrelevant. If these drivers had stayed within the limit then they wouldn't be being fined. It's as simple as that.

[The Lone Gunman]

If the sign says 20 on it, and you can read the 20 on it, then clearly unless you are too thick to realise that means 20mph speed limit (in which case you shouldn't be driving) and you exceed 20mph then you are speeding and should get fined. This is pure common sense and I applaud the judge in this case.

The amount of money to be collected is irrelevant. If these drivers had stayed within the limit then they wouldn't be being fined. It's as simple as that.

So I am to respond to any road sign put up by any muppet in a manner I think is appropriate to that sign?
Or should I just respond to official ones?
If it is the later then the official signs must conform to a standard or else I will not recognise them.

[rootsnall]

The Alex Ferguson driving on the hard shoulder technicality get out of tulip clause still bugs me, can't remember the details but it was a pathetic excuse that the magistrate accepted. Does anybody know how the celebrity lawyer who Fergie used has got on since he was arrested for dodginess regarding another technicality case !?

[Spacecadet]

Does anybody know how the celebrity lawyer who Fergie used has got on since he was arrested for dodginess regarding another technicality case !?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/6100970.stm

[Cowboy Bob]

So I am to respond to any road sign put up by any muppet in a manner I think is appropriate to that sign?
Or should I just respond to official ones?
If it is the later then the official signs must conform to a standard or else I will not recognise them.

Then you will pay the fine and I will have no sympathy. I've seen the signs on Tower Bridge and it's fairly obvious what they mean. Common sense is required on both sides and motorists trying to take the p!ss and then complaining about it because they think they know best are just idiots.

[The Lone Gunman]

Then you will pay the fine and I will have no sympathy. I've seen the signs on Tower Bridge and it's fairly obvious what they mean. Common sense is required on both sides and motorists trying to take the p!ss and then complaining about it because they think they know best are just idiots.

So when does the sign become unrecognisable then?
It is the council taking the piss. The law is quite clear. It doesn't say the signs have to kind of look like it stipulates exactly what they should look like.
This could open a free for all, or cause chaos with money grabbing councils sticking up not quite right signs and putting speed guns behind them.

[Cowboy Bob]

So when does the sign become unrecognisable then?
It is the council taking the piss. The law is quite clear. It doesn't say the signs have to kind of look like it stipulates exactly what they should look like.
This could open a free for all, or cause chaos with money grabbing councils sticking up not quite right signs and putting speed guns behind them.

Like I said, common sense is what's needed on both sides. If the sign is placed in good faith and anyone with an ounce of sense can understand it, then that should be good enough.