Defensibility of claims under the new Well-managed UK Highway Infrastructure Guidance

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The Well-managed Highway Infrastructure Code (WMHI) was published in October 2016, but its two year transition period has now ended. The code was touted as a review of existing practice, as opposed to a complete rewriting, with the focus shifting to a risk-based approach to reflect the flexibility required to enable authorities to adequately respond to each specific sector. Its 36 recommendations, broadly split across 6 different focussed areas, are officially in force and the WMHI will now be relied upon by local authorities, practitioners, experts, lawyers and the courts as guidance when the adequacies of the network in question are challenged.