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Is there any reason why an undischarged bankrupt may not be granted a HC drivers licence and plate.

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I don't know about a plate but there is no reason that bankruptcy should stop someone from holding a badge. If some one already has a badge and they get declared bankrupt I doubt that they would then loose the badge particullaly if it is their only job.

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Grandad,

IMO it all depends on for what and why the driver went bust, and when.

But I would have reservations.

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IDFIMH

why?

King Edward II - 14th century English king. His 14th century attempt to conquer France led to the Hundred Years' War, and the cost of this scheme put him £30 (approx. $60) in debt - over $7,000,000 in today's cash.)

Rembrandt 1606-1669 - the famous Dutch painter. He filed for bankruptcy at the age of 50 in 1656. Many of Rembrandt's paintings and his house were sold at an auction. After the bankruptcy, he continued to paint but was not allowed to sell his works directly to customers. He was able to circumvent this law by having his son take over his business and sell his paintings.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, composer. He fell heavily into debt in his early 30s and when he died at age 35, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.

Thomas Jefferson - when Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, his large estate and all his possessions, including 130 slaves, were auctioned off to pay his creditors.

Milton Hershey - founder of Hershey’s chocolate, his first four companies failed, his fifth is now one of the worlds largest chocolate manufacturers.

Walt Disney – Disney founded his first company (the Laugh-O-Gram Corp) in 1921 with $15,000 from investors, went bankrupt two years later when his investors pulled out due to distribution problems. His next company did rather better.

Francis Ford Coppola (film maker - The Godfather)
Kim Basinger (Actress)
Barbara Bel Geddes (Actress - Miss Ellie in Dallas)
George Best (Football star)
Bjorn Borg (Tennis player)
Toni Braxton (Singer)
John DeLorean (Car maker - featured in Back to the Future films)
Walt Disney (Founded Disney)
Handel (Composer - messiah)
MC Hammer (Singer)
Ulysses S.Grant (18th President of the USA)
Charles Goodyear (Invented goodyear tyres)
Don Jonson (Actor - miami vice,nash bridges)
Al Jolson (Singer)
Jerry Lee Lewis (Singer)
Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the USA)
Meat Loaf (Singer)
Rembrandt (Painter)
Burt Reynolds (Actor)
Donald Trump (Businessman - bounced back quite well!)
Shane Ritchie AKA Alfie Moon !
Bill Roache - Ken Barlow
Adam Faith
George Best
Pop group Bros- Nearly
Jonathan Aitken
Neil Hamilton
Richard Blackwood
Simon Cowell
Jeffrey Archer (3 times)
Sir Alan Sugar
Sir Richard Branson
Michael Heseltine
Eddie "The Eagle" - ski jumper
Kerry Katona

and lots lots more like Mick Fleetwood, Tammy Wynette, Cyndi Lauper, LaToya Jackson,Marvin Gaye, Larry King, Buster Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Britney Spears' mum.......

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Because some people who go bust might be iffy. Why else?

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IDFIMH

...............and precisly how many of these people wanted a hackney badge and plate?

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Grandad,

cant see your logic, bankruptcy is a last resort, its personal, and a bankrupt can screw his credit file for anything from 1 year to 15....who does the "iffy"?

its directors of ltd companies who sink em then restart you need to watch out for most

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not the point

one of em was the king of england...

1 or 2 queens in there too

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Are you saying all bankrupts are just unlucky?

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IDFIMH

I thought an undischarged bankrupt couldn't own a business.......

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wrong

an undischarged bankrupt cannot be a director of a ltd company but may be a sole trader

there are many misconceptions attached to bankruptcy

they need not lose their house should they have one (subject to equity)
they can keep tools of a trade (even a fairway)
they dont go to prison

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no, im just saying not all are lucky

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Well there are about to be a lot more of them, just watch your local press, the amount of job losses is now accelerating rapdily, shades of the early seventies. What chance blackouts and three day weeks.

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