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But that's mitigation, not a defence to the charge.

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IDFIMH

No it's not mitigation, it is a Defence.

The best thing Sudbury can do is go to a traffic specialist Solicitor who does the first half hour free and take his or her advice.

Plead Guilty and you then have costs going on and on with raised insurance costs year after year.

He could check whether he has Legal Fee access via his Bank Account (I do) or his household insurance (I do) or on any other similar things. Maybe if he has a separate car, the insurance may cover Legal Fees.

Lots of people have access to Lawyers they don't even know about.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

Pleading Guilty may cost him his Hackney license

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

and no insurance wouldnt?

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The moral here is dont rent cars, dont trust base owners to tell the truth

ask for a copy of the insurance schedule and ring the company

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You either have insurance or you do not have insurance.

There is no middle way.

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IDFIMH

Black or white.... no grey

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- https://www.lblaw.co.uk/services-for-you/motoring-offences/driving-without-insurance# Your insurance company had led you to believe you were insured
You were driving in the course of your employment and can demonstrate that your employer was responsible for insuring you

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I would think it is still the drivers responsibility to ensure that he was insured.
In this case I assume from what Sudbury states he was told he was insured by the proprietor but in hindsight should have asked for a copy of the insurance certificate.
The Council should be able to supply him with a copy of the certificate for the vehicle he was driving to see exactly what the cover was.
A lot of these certificates just state "any driver with the policy holders permission"

even for the self employed? i doubt that would hold water

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He was not renting the taxi he was on a 60 40 split which means the owner was paying him

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

no, hes either EMPLOYED or SELF employed, as a PAYE employee would be on the NMW its obvious the base wasnt paying him

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You can be self-employed and still entitled to worker's rights such as national minimum wage.

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IDFIMH

You can roll a turd in gold, its still a turd

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no, the bag was paying him, the base got their 60% last

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