Sussex wrote:
It will be an interesting case to read.
Until then I'm perplexed as to how a taxi driver takes a booking, without a license to take one.
Clearly they could be on a circuit, or someone could ring them, but a booking is a booking, and that IMO means a verbal booking at the time of pick up.
Clearly, again, the court says different.
Only PH have an operators license! In my area 99% of firms are all hackney NO operators license required it can confuse the hell out of some organisations you deal with who are totally bamboozled but we probably do 90% of our work from the phones and up to 25% or more are jobs outside of the licensing district as we border 3 other districts.
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but as we are all hackney we cannot have an operators license !
So if this chap was on a booking it would have been legal but he wasn't as the OP stated he was caught in a test purchase operation trying to pick up rank work in a neighbouring district