Taxi Driver Online

Another hopeless case

I wonder what the success rate for drivers is for this kind of thing? Of course, I doubt councils would be so keen to publicise cases that they lose

But if Buckinghamshire Council is anything to go by, victories for appellants in cases like this must be pretty unusual...


Court backs council decision to revoke Scunthorpe taxi driver’s licence after safety breaches

https://www.northlincs.gov.uk/news/cour ... -breaches/

A Scunthorpe taxi driver who was caught speeding and watching videos while driving with a passenger failed in his attempt to overturn the Council’s decision to revoke his licence.

Magistrates have upheld North Lincolnshire Council’s immediate revocation of the licence, confirming the driver was not “fit and proper” to carry passengers.

Mr Shah Abu Sufian Md Sheruzzaman Siddiquee, 44, of Ashdown Avenue, Scunthorpe, had his taxi driver’s licence revoked in January 2025. The immediate revocation came after five videos were received of him speeding and watching videos whilst driving.

Licensed drivers are legally required to be considered fit and proper. Drivers are subject to strict standards to ensure public safety.

At a hearing held on Friday 5 December 2025 at Grimsby Magistrates’ Court, the court upheld North Lincolnshire Council’s decision, agreeing that Mr Siddiquee was not fit and proper to hold a driver’s licence and confirming that the Council upheld its duties.

As part of its ruling, Mr Siddiquee was ordered to pay the full legal costs incurred by the Council in bringing the case forward – over £2,000.

Videos from five different passengers showing the same thing seems unlikely. But if it was all on the same trip then the above maybe makes it sound worse than it was. Although he was presumably doing it for some time if it all happened on the same trip and there were five different videos

I wonder what the concrete evidence was of him speeding, though?

Anyway, if you're watching videos at the wheel like that then you're not only a bad driver, you're also devoid of any self-awareness if doing it in front of passengers

to be honest I'm not sure why he bothered appealing as given the evidence the chances of getting it overturned were about the same as for winning the lottery

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He defo wins the longest name on TDO 2025.

But it's good he shouldn't appear in 2026.

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