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[nick crisp]

Those are bordered by a broken white line, so the highway code says 'should not enter'. Note it does not say 'Must not enter'. A must-not is backed by law and illegal. A should-not isn't backed by law, and it's not illegal. As such Red, you've not broken any laws. However the fact that it's a should-not in the highway code may be held against you somewhat when it comes to insurance firms assigning blame. There's a good chance because of this you will be held contributory to blame.   And I'm afraid filtering will not be deemed 'necessary'...

Well put Arfa. What annoys me is that it then leaves things open to interpretation, and you get all kinds of different results from people's experiences. It just wasn't talked about in my case. I guess it depends on how much you can keep things concentrated on how the driver didn't carry out proper observation before manoeuvring. But if your witnesses will back you, then you can maybe fall back on midden's point then 

In most cases I've read of, the filtering motorcyclist will always be held partly responsible. But I also think I've seen ones where that wasn't the case either. A lot of variables can come into play I guess.