FollowFollowFollowFollow The Government has recently lost a Supreme Court ruling which may result in a change to the way they process criminal records checks for, amongst others, taxi and private hire drivers. The Supreme Court ruled the Government’s current system...
FollowFollowFollowFollow The Government has been promising action on taxi and private hire licensing reform for many years. To date, no comprehensive effort by the Government has been forthcoming. The most recent attempt was the Finish and Task Group on Taxi &...
FollowFollowFollowFollow One: Don’t waste time The right to appeal a decision to revoke, refuse or suspend your taxi or private hire licence is on condition that you lodge the appeal within 21 days of being notified of the decision. There are very limited grounds for...
FollowFollowFollowFollow The Government has laid Regulations in Parliament that will make it mandatory for council’s to regularly upload certain taxi & PH data to a national database. The Air Quality (Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles Database) (England and Wales)...
FollowFollowFollowFollow The regulation of hackney carriage fares is a discretionary power “A district council may fix the rates or fares within the district” (s.65 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976). All council’s do however regulate hackney...
Licensing barrister and head of Taxi Defence Barristers, Stephen McCaffrey, was asked to comment on a Times article on the growing “doing lifts” industry. The request was made to Stephen after his “Doing lifts” article highlighting the dangers of this unlawful...
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