All Entries in the "Legal & Policy" Category

Northumberland Consultation on Draft Policy

The council has started a formal consultation on a draft policy for hackney carriage and private hire licensing which was considered and endorsed by the Council’s Licensing and Regulatory Committee on 4th December 2009……

Labour Peer proposes amendment to scrap (in part) sec 16 of the 1985 Transport Act

A late amendment to the 2010 Equality Bill was added by Baroness Wilkins on Tuesday 19th January 2010. This amendment, if enacted, could end the discretion that local licensing authorities have in restricting the number of hackney carriages they license.

Drug dealers and sex offenders , criminals given taxi driver licences

………………………..Criminals with convictions for offences including indecent assault and drug dealing are knowingly being granted taxi driver licences……………………..

Taxi drivers hit by legal bill

TAXI drivers say they will be crippled by costs after losing a landmark court case. Salford hackney cab drivers went to court to overturn the council’s decision to implement new rules across the city…………….

Private Hire To Remove Roof Signs

Private Hire firms in Gloucester have hit out at new Government legislation to remove roof lights from private hire vehicles.

Calderdale Council to refund £4,725 in fixed penalty fines

CALDERDALE Council is to refund thousands of pounds to taxi drivers who were fined under an “illegal” fixed penalty scheme.

The council was forced to abandon the scheme of ‘offence notices’, which…..

Drivers win taxi age court fight

A judge has ruled in the favour of taxi drivers in Newport, who challenged a council decision to impose age limits on vehicles. A new rule had said Hackney cabs must be less than 12 years old, and private hire cars less than eight from 2010.

The judge said Newport Council failed to consult properly………………..

Liverpool Council brakes put on wheelchair taxi plan

PLANS to license a new wheelchair friendlier taxi in Liverpool have stalled at the council’s licensing committee meeting.

Liverpool City Council had been told by the High Court in London to perform a U-turn on its decision to ban the Peugeot E7 cab, which is in use in the majority of other cities across the UK……………

Improving Access to Taxis Consultation Report

Consultation analysis report

This report provides an analysis of responses to each of the 19 questions posed in the consultation document, Improving Access to Taxis in February 2009. Key themes are identified in the report and key issues are summarised.

Views sought on new taxi policy

People are being consulted over the establishment of new rules for taxi regulation in County Durham.

North Tyneside H/C Proposed Fare Increase

There is a fare increase on the table for the next meeting of the North Tyneside Regulation and Review Committee, Thursday 8 October 2009 at 6pm………..

CCTV in Taxis on North Tyneside

Some drivers have raised questions about having cctv in their vehicles.

This is what North Tynesides Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Policy states…….

The Judgement: Revisited

Neutral Citation Number: [2008] EWHC 2369 (Admin)
Case No: CO/6448/2007
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
05/11/2008

Private Hire Driver Had no Insurance

A Private Hire driver made over 86 journeys carrying passengers whilst having no valid insurance cover…………

Taxi boss fined over unlicensed driver

A TAXI boss was fined more than £800 after one of his drivers was caught without a license or insurance……….