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AIDING AND ABETTING APPEAL WHICH FAILED.
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Attention is directed to an important appeal case concerning the jurisdiction of local magistrates, in the annual report of the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners' Association and Southeast Lancashire area of the C.M.U.A. The joint organization supported an appeal against a decision by the Rawtenstall magistrates, who convicted an operator for aiding and abetting the offence of exceeding the speed limit.
Appellants contended that the magistrates had no jurisdiction outside their own boundaries. The Lord Chief Justice, who heard the appeal, decided that the magistrates were within their jurisdiction in coming to their decision. As the record sheet showed that the speed had been exceeded on some part of the journey, it was immaterial where the offence had occurred, whether within the boundaries covered by the court which had the case before them or not.
The joint organization impressed upon all members that, in view of the far-reaching results of this decision, drivers should be instructed to observe the statutory speed limits on all occasions.
Conditions Better as a Result of the Act.
It is estimated that 40 per cent, of the visitors to Blackpool come by road. This figure was quoted at the annual dinner of the Blackpool and District Motor Coach Owners' Association on Friday of last week. Nearly 250 guests attended.
Proposing the toast of the Association, Councillor J. R. F. Hill, himself a former coach proprietor, said that since the introductionof the Road Traffic Act, 1930, he thought the situation had changed for the better. There was not the same cut-throat competition and no instance, as there used to be, of operators taking passengers free in order to make up a load.
"It would be difficult to imagine Major.Hickmott, the managing director of the Ribble Services, and Mr. Luff, general manager of the Blackpool Corporation transport department, tossing up who should take a full load, or saying one would run to Preston and the other to Poulton," added Conn cillar Hill. That was the way we conducted our business in the old days."
Licensing Authority Thanks A.R.O. For Its Help.
Speaking at the fourth annual dinner of the Gloucester Sub-area of A.R.O., last week, Mr. T. C. Corpe, legal adviser to the western area A.R.O., in proposing the toast of "The Ministry of Transport," referred to the many changes which had taken place at the Ministry.
He said that the Department did not know from one day to the other who its father was, and that probably explained why old mother Transport Ministry was so prolific with regulations.
c60 Even for members of the legal fraternity, it was extremely difficult to keep pace with some of the regulations.
Mr. Corpe said they were fortunate in that area in having the people they had to administer the law as it stood. He did not think that there was anyone present .who would suggest that the Licensing Atithority was unfair or prejudiced in favour of the railway companies or road transport.
Mr. Packer, one of the clerks to the Authority, thanked Mr. Corpe for his remarks and went on to say that in their difficult job any success they had achieved was due in no small measure to the assistance of Mr. Corpe and that of other legal advisers and of officers of A.R.O. RATES STRUCTURE CONFERENCE FOR MERSEYSIDE. .
Work has already been started by the Conference of Merseyside Transport Association, which is composed of representatives of the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners Association, the C.M.U.A. and the A.R.O.; in tabulating conditionswith a view 'to setting up a rates structure for the Merseyside area.
In order to strengthen the influence of the Conference, it has 'been decided to invite the participation of the West Lancashire centre of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, the Liverpool and District Short Cart and Motor Owners Association, and the Wallasey Motor and Cart Owners Association.