Mrs Justice Farbey wrote:
Mr Nicholls suggested that the offences were the result of an isolated misunderstanding that had arisen because the appellant had believed that the local authorities would deal with any licensing requirements, as happened elsewhere in England where the local authority was also the licensing authority. The appellant had not appreciated that he needed to approach the respondent as the separate licensing authority in London. This mistake had damaged the appellant's ability to obtain subsequent licences in various parts of England.
That kind of echoes what I was saying in the news thread - in London maybe the licensing process will seem a bit more remote from the councils organising the school runs, because it's London Borough Councils and Transport for London that are being considered
However, I don't think the highlighted part of the statement above is correct, because generally speaking it's county councils running the schools, while it's local district or borough councils licensing the cars (except under unitary council scenarios).
So the normal scenario maybe isn't quite so remote as the London Borough Council and TfL scenario, but in most cases I don't think the school authority is as close to the licensing authority as portrayed above
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