Category: TGC AEV Law Team

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...

The (legal) press has, in recent months, reported on claims concerning the employment status of those working in the gig economy. This section of the labour market is characterised by the exchange of work...

There is a huge variety of micro-mobility vehicles (“MMVs”) available on the market, including e-scooters, e-bikes, wheeled ‘hoverboards’ and powered unicycles. It is legal to buy any of these vehicles and it is also...

The Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (the AEV Act 2018) describes itself as “An Act to make provision about automated vehicles and electric vehicles”.  It is an Act in three parts: Part 1:...

The keystone of the legislative scheme under the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (AEVA 2018) is Section 2(1) which provides that an insurer is liable for any damage caused when damage is ‘caused’...

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown...

Welcome to the the TGC Automated and Electric Vehicle Law blog! We (Alex Glassbrook and Emma Northey) are delighted to be editing the TGC AEV Law blog, and to have the opportunity to introduce...