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Councils have to be politically correct when it comes to the disabled lobby, if I was your friend, I would be contacting his local disabled lobby group, and they intern I would think would be asking the question, what is the council's policy on disabled Taxi drivers', and how do they justify it. it seems to me that as a diabetic he has to notify the DVLA of his condition and they in turn require doctors evidence before they will grant him a national driving licence...............the point being , they are satisfied he is fit to drive, so on what grounds are the council saying he isn't.


When I was diagnosed as diabetic, I rang the DVLA to tell them. When I said that it was controlled by diet and tablets, they said thank you for letting us know, I will put a note on your record. Job done. I rang my insurers and they said the same. No forms no doctors letter no problem.

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As you say obviously the actions of an over-zealous licensing officer.

A friend of mine that had lost an eye was in the middle of a debate with the council, it was at the time they were bringing out the new rules governing Hgv and PSV licences regarding eyesight.... glasses etc.... vision .....

my friend had been driving a hackney carriage for four or five years prior,..... they seem to think that having only the one eye they should take away his licence and introduce their new policy.

I attended the meeting and stated.. that he had lost his eye in the Falklands. under fire,
a ricocheted had taken off half his face, and he had 26 operations reconstructing it, as far as the the DVLA were concerned he was fit to drive, so in my opinion it was OK for him to lay his life on the ground serving his country but the hackney officer didn't think he was fit to drive a Hackney vehicle, there were a few more choice words which I could not repeat, the outcome was he kept his licence and that particular part of the medical was not enforced.

PS. to this day he has never had an accident

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MR T wrote:
Councils have to be politically correct when it comes to the disabled lobby, if I was your friend, I would be contacting his local disabled lobby group, and they intern I would think would be asking the question, what is the council's policy on disabled Taxi drivers', and how do they justify it. it seems to me that as a diabetic he has to notify the DVLA of his condition and they in turn require doctors evidence before they will grant him a national driving licence...............the point being , they are satisfied he is fit to drive, so on what grounds are the council saying he isn't.
=D> Totally agree with you T.Two of my relatives were diabetic,but they still had a healthy working life with no setbacks as they kept their diabetes controlled with diet/tablets etc.
I always remember a spurs footballer called gary mabbut who had diabetes and he never seemed to have any probs!

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badger wrote:
MR T wrote:
Councils have to be politically correct when it comes to the disabled lobby, if I was your friend, I would be contacting his local disabled lobby group, and they intern I would think would be asking the question, what is the council's policy on disabled Taxi drivers', and how do they justify it. it seems to me that as a diabetic he has to notify the DVLA of his condition and they in turn require doctors evidence before they will grant him a national driving licence...............the point being , they are satisfied he is fit to drive, so on what grounds are the council saying he isn't.
=D> Totally agree with you T.Two of my relatives were diabetic,but they still had a healthy working life with no setbacks as they kept their diabetes controlled with diet/tablets etc.
I always remember a spurs footballer called gary mabbut who had diabetes and he never seemed to have any probs!


Oh yes he did! Playing for Spurs being the worst. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Oh yes he did! Playing for Spurs being the worst. :lol: :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but my friend lost his appeal at magistrates.
However he didn't employ a solicitor as he thought the jp's would be sensible and do the right thing.
He is planning an appeal to crown court and will use lawyers this time.

He is however going to offer the council a chance to not waste taxpayers money by asking them to reconsider their decision before running up a legal bill.

Any further help with documentation and / or case law would be gratefully received.

Merry Xmas to all my readers!

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but my friend lost his appeal at magistrates.

Remind me why your council wont license him?

Cos if his doctor says he is fine, then how can the bench say otherwise?

What does his consultant say?

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allo allo wrote:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but my friend lost his appeal at magistrates.

Remind me why your council wont license him?

Cos if his doctor says he is fine, then how can the bench say otherwise?

What does his consultant say?


It's apparently a condition imposed by Reigate and Banstead Ccl

He has no problem with driving as the DVLA are OK with him and they would remove his lic. like a shot if they thought there was any danger.

It's presumably just some old prejudice that has been allowed to remain in place as a condition by the dinosaurs on that council, they are obviously embarrassed by it as they don't mention it on their web-site.

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"Disability Discrimination" comes to mind :roll:

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HELP

Can anyone post a link for a copy of the DVLA Medical Handbook, please.

Thanks

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Save this link to your desktop and open it!

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So.......was that what you wanted allo allo :?:

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yes it was thank you hopper.

happy new year

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Further to the above I just come across something from ROSPA that agree with the gov best practise.

http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/info/ta ... ensing.pdf

So if the safety folks are happy with C1, then WTF aren't the council? :sad:

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Thanks to all for your info.

The appeal is lodged, the solicitor on board.

Letter has been sent to Council to offer one last chance before they waste their ratepayers money on a Crown Court appeal.

ps the Magistrates didn't award costs against my mate in his original appeal so they presumably thought there was some merit in his case.

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