Re that letter

[TEC]

Cause I don't think its the right place to have chit chat ....

Originally Posted by Nelson

Scottish Road Traffic law and English road traffic law is the same as far as I'm aware

Basically they may be but they aint, commit an offence etc up here and its up here you get dealt with. Its why I had to travel down south again to Preston to deal with an insurance thing after the third party failed to appear the first time in Newcastle The Newcastle judge would have happily sent it all north of the border if it had been the same traffic laws

Yep, you're right lots of differences Tec.

Didn't think the law was _that_ different, more the way the court system was set up, sheriffs, prosecutor fiscal, different verdicts ( not proven) etc.

Originally Posted by AndyW

Didn't think the law was _that_ different, more the way the court system was set up, sheriffs, prosecutor fiscal, different verdicts ( not proven) etc.

No that's probably largely true in that the written words, road traffic act, etc are the same, certainly anything written before devolution. Newer laws, such as those on number plates, etc are different.

Most people are not that pedantic about the meaning of the world "law", the majority also accept it to mean the interpretation of the law and the way in which offences are dealt with, which in Scotland can be very different. It would therefore be misleading to the majority of people to say that the law is the same.

the good thing being that the precedent is now and set and the boys in blue up here have told me that in our courts it will also be set a precedent - so I was talking Carp again (nothing unusual i hear you cry)

The Road Traffic Act 1988 is LARGLY the same for both English and Scottish Law. What differs is, as mentioned above, procedures (ie power of arrest and court procedures, etc) and any newer acts.