Shircore, Mandy (2008) Standardising the standard of the learner driver: Imbree v McNeilly. James Cook University Law Review, 15 (2008). pp. 234-249.

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Abstract

More than twenty years after the High Court of Australia created an exception to the objective standard of care required of the reasonable driver by imposing a reduced standard upon inexperienced, unqualified drivers in respect to their supervising passenger, the High Court has ruled that this anomaly can no longer stand. Long a favourite of torts law examiners, the case of Cook v Cook,2 has recently been overruled in Imbree v McNeilly,3 so that the standard of care now owed by inexperienced drivers to all road users, including their supervising passengers, is one and the same - that of the 'reasonable driver'.

Item ID:	6498
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1321-1072
Keywords:	duty of care
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