Strict liability in Scotland?

[David Martin]

Payouts may actually fall as there would be expected to be fewer collisions. It is amazing how much your eyesight improves when you know your NCB is at risk if you hit a cyclist.

[Salis]

Someone on Reddit suggested that right now, our legal system is effectively the reverse of strict liability: in an incident between a motorist and a cyclist there is (unofficially, but effectively) a presumption that the cyclist is at fault unless it can be proved otherwise.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Payouts may actually fall as there would be expected to be fewer collisions. It is amazing how much your eyesight improves when you know your NCB is at risk if you hit a cyclist.

Say no more; bring it on!

[Regulator]

Payouts may actually fall as there would be expected to be fewer collisions. It is amazing how much your eyesight improves when you know your NCB is at risk if you hit a cyclist.

I think initially payouts will rise, as the burden shifts and cyclists make claims they were put off  from making previously.  Once increased premiums kick in, then there will be fewer collisions and premiums will start to fall again.

[graculus]

The topic gets an airing on today's 'You & Yours' (about 20 -30 mins in I think):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0s7s
Both sides of argument presented and because it was Peter White presenting the contributors got a chance to complete their points.
It did not appear on the website listing for the programme; although topics sometimes get included at the last minute I suspect this was excluded deliberately to avoid any chance of switchboard meltdown that might have occurred if it had received a day or so's notice.

[mattc]

[already posted in the other thread - sorry!]

Right, listened - thanks.

AA's Edmund King was not on good form. His argument had two strands:

- cylists will delibeartely crash into parked cars for compensation
--- King: <wibble about innocent until proven guilty>
--- Lawyer: You're confusing civil with criminal law, you simpleton
--- King: er ... no I'm not.

Idiot.

[Domestique]

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