The Weekly Law Reports
[1971] 3 WLR 291
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ALBERT APPELLANT AND MOTOR INSURERS' BUREAU RESPONDENTS
1971 May 10,
11,
12;
July 7
July 7
Lord Donovan, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Pearson, Lord Diplock and Lord Cross of Chelsea
Road Traffic
— Third party insurance
— “Hire or reward”
— Driver carrying fellow workers to and from work
— Regular and understood arrangement that driver rewarded in money or kind
— Driver liable for death of passenger
— Judgment against driver unsatisfied
— Whether required to insure against liability to passengers
— Whether passenger being carried in “vehicle in which passengers are carried for hire or reward”
—
Road Traffic Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2, c. 16), s. 203 (4)
Road Traffic
— Third party insurance
— Motor Insurers' Bureau
— Agreement with Minister
— Action on agreement by third party
— Whether permissible