Taxi Driver Online

In nearly all local newspapers there is a weekly list of those persons who have appeared at the Magistrates Court,names and addresses,crimes and punishments administered are listed.

Where does that fit in with your view,is this a breach of data protection?

The matter in the opening post concerns civil proceeding, albeit in relation to a criminal offence.

That's where it fits.

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IDFIMH

Sounds like there's a which hunt on for him.

Newcastle City Council v Berwick.

Para.22 The Judge defines what the LAW is regarding TAXI(HACKNEY CARRIAGE ) registers and content that Councils must include and make it available to be seen by the public on request.

Proprietors,drivers and criminal offences must be recorded in the register.

Hmm, I don't think he said CRIMINAL offences?

Does offences as such not mean all offences committed whatever they are?

Is there any other section of the Human Rights Act that you think cab drivers should be excluded from?

Or is the right to privacy enough for you?

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IDFIMH

It depends how you read what he says?

The Proper Interpretation of section 37 of the 1847 Act

22. In my judgment the major purpose behind the 1847 Act, and indeed the 1976 Act, is the safety of the public by which I include both the travelling public as passengers and other road users. Thus the scheme of the legislation is directed towards having safe vehicles, fit and proper drivers and appropriate conditions of hire. To ensure this safety a form of enforcement is provided for with a system of penalties for non-compliance. Registers of proprietors and drivers are kept together with offences committed which are available for public inspection. Byelaws and conditions apply locally to the licensed hackney carriages and it was apparent from the evidence before me that different councils will impose different conditions[6] and have different byelaws no doubt prompted by legitimate differences of opinion but also dependent on the area concerned. It may be, for example, that an authority covering a large conurbation will have different concerns, and require different conditions, to one covering a more rural area.

But it's not just that.

The case was about where and when a driver could take work and from whom, it had diddly squat to do with the rights and wrongs of data protection.

If the judge had made that so, then I suspect many many human rights and privacy lawyers would have got involved.

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IDFIMH