Category: TGC AEV Law Team

Introduction Certain (legal) headlines over the summer concentrated on the Automated Vehicles Act 2024, which received Royal Assent on 20 May 2024. This was one of the last Acts to be passed by the...

The Automated Vehicles Act 2024 became law on 20 May 2024, when the Automated Vehicles Bill (AV Bill) received Royal Assent. The text of the Act is expected to be published later today on...

The Automated Vehicles Bill 2023-24 has had its first reading in Parliament (with its announcement in the House of Lords as HL Bill 1 on 8 November 2023) and is expected to pass into...

As an AEV law blog, we have covered a number of developments in automated vehicle law, and even remote driving. This article focuses on the ‘E’ in AEV. It summarises the history of the...

On 18 January 2023 the Department for Transport launched a consultation on changes to the MOT test, with proposals to update testing requirements to cover electric and automated vehicles. The MOT test was introduced...

The Law Commission have published an issues paper on remote driving. Responses were invited from 24 June 2022 to 2 September 2022. The matters about which the Law Commission have sought consideration include potential...

“What safeguard remains? Apparently only day-to-day – or perhaps year-to-year – opportunistic measures, a long sequence of small, correct decisions.” John von Neumann, Can We Survive Technology? (1955) Results Day The announcement, when it...

Introduction On 25 March 2022, the UK Government published the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy. The plan, to quote the foreword from the Secretary of State for Transport, is to “get more chargepoints in the...

In Lloyd v Google [2021] UKSC 50 the Supreme Court was faced with a case alleging breach of millions of people’s data rights by Google. The Claimant, on behalf of all individuals affected, sought...