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Old 05-04-2012, 05:09 PM   #104
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Not under UK law. Here, if you are the registered keeper of a vehicle, you have a legal responsibility to know who is driving it at all times. Hence, if an offence is committed by that vehicle, you are legally required to disclose the identity of the driver at that time. If you are unable to do so (or refuse to do so) you'll face prosecution as if you were the driver.

That's why I say that I think that the same principle can be (and indeed, IS, in the UK) extended to IP connections, because there is a long-established legal precedent for doing so.
As to the car... Let's say you loan it to someone. You know who is the driver. That person goes out at night and has too many drinks to then get in the car and drive. But the person with the person who has the car had no drinks and drives the car. You have no way of knowing this and when the photo comes back and you can't identify who is driving but all you know is it is not you, you should not get fined.
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