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And these are the new conditions Uber have to now adhere too.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl ... ions-1.pdf

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IDFIMH

The LTDA are not exactly a neutral party in this. They'll bring up public safety but ultimately it's all about wanting the competition to go away.

The big issue is the lack of joined up systems. It's difficult to verify that someone actually has H&R insurance rather than just SDP, most operators just take a copy of the insurance certificate or cover note, how many of them actually phone the insurance company to verify that the certificate is legit? On a similar vein with the photo swapping on the app, they traced that to 24 out of 40,000 drivers, that's the equivalent of an op with 1600 cars having 1 dodgy driver let his mate drive it. I daresay that any one of us could do the exact same thing with any of the big ops that use Autocab or similar, the only difference is that without the photo swapping there's no evidence that it actually happened.

Would you expect even a 100 car operator to be denied an op licence if it was found that one of its drivers had commited fraud against them?

Indeed, and consistent with what the chief magistrate said about perfection not being required, and his remarks about the industry more widely.

No.

But the accusation was that they knew about it and didn't react in sufficient time.

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IDFIMH

Which is kind of consistent with what I was saying almost three years ago to the day


It's always looked like TfL don't actually expect Uber to lose its licence, and the litigation etc is all about forcing Uber's hand on compliance and updating processes and procedures as required etc.

So call it cat and mouse, brinksmanship, or whatever, but it's all a kind of game. Of course, a lot of law, litigation, prosecutions etc is like that, whether civil or criminal. It's just the reality of these things.

Incidentally, and on a pedantic presentational point, I'd have removed the QC's underlining of paragraph headings:


Maybe it's a thing in legal documents, but if you look in newspapers, books, official reports, professional websites etc, you won't see much underlining used for titles, paragraph headings etc. Use a bigger font, bold or even italics, but not underlining

Utterly disgraceful

And if there's one thing that should be relevant to fit and proper status, it's underlining text like that

Our insurance certificates state that we are covered for private hire.

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Grandad,

I know, but did you actually call the insurance company named on the certificate to confirm that it actually genuine? This has been what a number of Uber drivers were doing, buying (convincing) fake documents.