Taxi Driver Online

With all the recent talk about illegally picking up fares in areas other than the one to which you are licensed, I should remind everyone especially hackney carriage drivers that responding to a hail could put you in the same position as Mr Amin.

The case of Nottingham City Council v Amin 2000.

Mr Amin owned a taxi which was not licensed to ply for hire in Nottingham.

Two plain clothes policemen who saw him driving down a street in Nottingham in the middle of the night flagged him down. He stopped and upon request agreed to take them to the destination which they named.

When they arrived, the policemen paid the fare and then charged him with the offence of plying for hire without a licence.

He was convicted of the offence.

His defence was based on inducement to commit the offence and that the police officers acted as agents provocateurs. It follows that anyone who accepts a hail in an area to which they are not licensed, is guilty of an offence and there is no way out of it.

Regards

JD

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Would their be any any defence if there was a major incident going on at the time. In 96 during the manchester bomb, any type of transport was used to take people away from the city and not just the injured.

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Under these circumstances I doubt if anyone would be prosecuted.

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I think a justifiable defence could then be put.

And a smack on the hooter for the mush that bought the complaint.

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