Below is a message received from Tim Stevens at LARA. He would be grateful if any clubs have any information that could assist him in the subject regarding the amount of weight the Highway Code carries when prosecution cases are brought against drivers using rights of way.

If you can help in this matter then please get in touch with Tim at Larahq@aol.com

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You will remember the Byway Rules Apply idea in the Solutions paper we took to Defra in Bristol.

One factor about which Defra officers were asking was how effective is the Highway Code provision which says 'This is not the law, but if you fail to follow this advice it can be taken into consideration when deciding on any conviction or sentence.' This is the model on which we suggest the Byway Rules might work best, avoiding a raft of new legislation.

Your members - especially the Police Officers among them - may have experience of this in court, with cases where a fine was increased because the Code had been ignored. Please let me have details of such contacts and any useful examples they can recall. This will help enormously in fleshing-out our proposals, making them look 100% worthwhile.

ASAP, please.
Best wishes
Tim Stevens, mrdo
LARA HQ
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If you have anything to help out LARA & greenlaning, please let them know.

Ta

Karl.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't know what the "..Byway rules apply..." suggestion is all about - anyone got any more info?

Puzzled of Colchester.

I wish I could illuminate further, but the text in blue above is a direct copy of the text of an e-mail from the ARC...

Karl.