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23rd April 1914, Page 4
23rd April 1914
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Page 4, 23rd April 1914 — Expert Legal Defence.
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Important Arrangements by the Commercial Motor Users Association.

We proceed to give details below of the current C.M.U.A. arrangements for the free legal defence, and the unlimited legal defence, of its members. The particulars are official: they were adopted at the annual general meeting of the Association last month. 'We give the text of the Association's circular exactly as it was submitted to the members in general meeting. Its publication by us in extenvi will enable readers who are not at the moment members of the C.M.U.A. to appreciate one of the benefits which such membership confers.

Apropos the 12 typical cases which are cited, it is interesting to observe that they were taken in places very far apart—from Bromley to Durham and from Slough to Barnstaple. These eases, it will be observed, are typical of others in which a successful defence was conducted by the Association. Hereanent, we may remark, without giving away the names of the police court and the parties, that on a particular occasion, of which we have knowledge. 12 owners were summoned by the police for the same class of offence ; only one of those owners was defended by the C.M.U.A., and his was the only summons that was dismissed by the magistrates. In the other 11 cases, although the offences were virtually

the same, fines varying in amount between 21 and 23 were inflicted upon the other " owners in distress,' owing to the fact that no expert defence was pre sented. The remedy is obvious. The conditions, which are applicable to both branches of the C.34.1.7.A. defence arrangements, are necessarily of a specific character, but they are none the less extremely liberal. The terms for " cover" are so low that we can confidently state they cannot be equalled by any individual owner, or any group of owners in combination, outside the C.M.U.A. roll of membership, with the advantage of the support of the Royal Automobile Club. In concluding our introductory references, we feel that, on the claims of the legal-defence scheme alone, to say nothing of the claims which the Association has upon owners by reason of its general work on their behalf, the entrance fee of one guinea and the annual subscription of one guinea should be cheerfully contributed, in his own interest, by any owner, whether he possess a single vehicle or a fleet. The owner of a fleet, if he wish to avail himself to the full of the legal defence, pays more than the owner of a maximum of four vehicles, in accordance with the terms which are set out herewith.


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