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 Post subject: The York Court case
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:01 am 
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today was the first day at court, the council solicitor turned up and had no idea, he thought it was down to the taxi licence department

re listed for November, there is a case to answer

pssst, anyone know a good taxi solicitor who knows his stuff, cos the lads on the ranks are now considering getting one


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 Post subject: Re: The York Court case
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:39 am 
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Stinky Pete wrote:

pssst, anyone know a good taxi solicitor who knows his stuff, cos the lads on the ranks are now considering getting one


James Button. :mrgreen:

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:52 am 
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yeah here you go he has won a couple of colour coding cases

http://www.sovereignchambers.co.uk/profile.php?id=51


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 Post subject: Re: The York Court case
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:28 pm 
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grandad wrote:
Stinky Pete wrote:

pssst, anyone know a good taxi solicitor who knows his stuff, cos the lads on the ranks are now considering getting one


James Button. :mrgreen:

I think he is more of a council man.

Best bet is to take your chance with one of this motley crew. :wink:

http://www.phtm.co.uk/media/1201266370.pdf

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:31 pm 
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the fellas i put on here are the briefs that won in durham so they are pretty good i reckon


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 Post subject: Re: The York Court case
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:47 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
Stinky Pete wrote:

pssst, anyone know a good taxi solicitor who knows his stuff, cos the lads on the ranks are now considering getting one


James Button. :mrgreen:

I think he is more of a council man.

Best bet is to take your chance with one of this motley crew. :wink:

http://www.phtm.co.uk/media/1201266370.pdf


I know that and you know that but he is, apparently, good. :wink:

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:56 am 
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York taxi licensing know they would lose this if it was ever taken to court, and that supposedly came from the department.
And if they did lose, would it be the same for the new rules that are coming in for the private hire fleet?
Is the trade going for all three?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:26 am 
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agabbycabbie wrote:
York taxi licensing know they would lose this if it was ever taken to court, and that supposedly came from the department.
And if they did lose, would it be the same for the new rules that are coming in for the private hire fleet?
Is the trade going for all three?


York Council have won very few taxi court cases over the years, the recently retired cabby, Mr P Wheatley and the deceased Mr Frank Marshall saw to that over the years, the council shook in their boots even when one of them was on to the phone to them

the trouble is now we have no back bone leaders of the trade, the Council will now try anything on and to them its seems it will be a walk over


the words uttered by some York taxi drivers seems to be "well they could deregulate" if this is not accepted

times are hard now, you all see how many cabs are circling around town looking for work as the 20 odd new cabs have arrived, seems to me some of these new cab drivers are blokes who have retired once, but now issued with a plate

i see now some of the plates owned by builders and plumbers are getting back their cabs for them to work as the building work as gone tits up

i think if the case is won this will also be a win for York PH, both PH and Hacks in York have a good relationship, time now to get together and lets get it sorted out


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:36 pm 
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well ive given you the link if you want to ignore me then thats up to you but i dont roll over to my council i get up and find what i need and use it


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 Post subject: Re: The York Court case
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:29 pm 
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Stinky Pete wrote:
colour, emmissions, age

today was the first day at court, the council solicitor turned up and had no idea, he thought it was down to the taxi licence department

re listed for November, there is a case to answer

pssst, anyone know a good taxi solicitor who knows his stuff, cos the lads on the ranks are now considering getting one


And who is going to pay for it, remember when gerald grisdale was hired to compile the report into the 2003 oft report,everyone who owned a plate was asked for £35 to pay for his time, he put in over 300 hours and drove to london to deliver it personnally and less than a third of owners coughed up, as for the durham case this was different to york in many ways, the taxi association took advice and was told by a barrister that they would not win but as usual the boys on the street know better, lets wait and see.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:21 am 
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jogra4 wrote:
well ive given you the link if you want to ignore me then thats up to you but i dont roll over to my council i get up and find what i need and use it


why do people want thanks or rewarding for a reply, it should be as taxi drivers goodwill, as it will get read and noted, and i dont see a need for a reply, but thanks anyway, it will eventually come in useful, but thats up to the chap doing the court case

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K3d55p2G_ ... re=related

I'm only the messenger, dont shoot the messenger, i ply this stuff on TDO hoping that some of the big wigs of either York Stn Taxis or the York Association do something, this does work cos we got the boss of Stn Taxis York coming on TDO to gives us all a bollocking, so TDO does work

no one has ignored your posting, this my friend has been read by many of York taxi drivers, taxi drivers who do not log on to TDO but just read, lurkers i believe is the term, taxi drivers who have more knowledge and could do something about it

have any of you noticed that some of the public out there do view TDO, when we talk to the public when they are passengers about what the Council are crucifying us with, some of the public say to us as drivers, have you been to a site on the internet called Taxi Driver Online, they may be able to help

might even change my job
http://www.flixxy.com/helicopter-cable-inspector.htm


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:57 pm 
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Stinky Pete wrote:
the trouble is now we have no back bone leaders of the trade, the Council will now try anything on and to them its seems it will be a walk over

the words uttered by some York taxi drivers seems to be "well they could deregulate" if this is not accepted


If you have issues with the York trade do something about it, I'm sure they'll appreciate your input.

But perhaps those 'some drivers' have a fair point, the deregulation issue is something the York trade will be beaten about the head with, are you going to risk it?

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jogra4 wrote:
well ive given you the link if you want to ignore me then thats up to you but i dont roll over to my council i get up and find what i need and use it


Are you going to use it?

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:26 pm 
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if i need to use it i will but i am sure that we can beat our council into submission without going to court


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 Post subject: we can help
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:26 am 
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stinkey pete i am in support i am private hire and i think if we were to work together on this matter we would win in court keep me up to date what york council want to do to us all is a disgrace!!


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