FIT AND PROPER
SOLIHULL PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER WHO BLAMED OVERCHARGING ON CORONAVIRUS LOSES LICENCE
A Black Country PHV driver has lost her licence after charging almost double the standard fair to a hospital. Sahrish Rahat Ayub picked up passengers who had not pre-booked their journey, which was a requirement of both her private hire licence and car insurance policy. Magistrates dismissed Ayub’s appeal against City of Wolverhampton
Council’s decision to revoke her private hire driver licence. In April last year, council officers received a complaint that Ayub, 25, had picked up a passenger who had not pre-booked the journey. The customer was charged £15 for a trip to Russells Hall Hospital from her home in Dudley, which is typically priced at £7. When questioned by council officers,
Ayub, from Solihull, said the increased cost was a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The customer had been provided with a business card containing Ayub’s personal phone number and she told him she had set up her own business. Ayub had frequently carried the passenger on journeys which had not been pre-booked which is illegal.
GLASGOW CABBIE LOSES LICENCE OVER DASH TO REACH DIABETIC WIFE AT SHOPPING CENTRE
A Glasgow cab driver has lost his licence after carelessly overtaking an ‘elderly lady’ to reach his diabetic wife who took unwell in a shopping centre. Jagjit Singh also drove at over 90mph on the motorway and through red traffic lights in separate incidents - earning nine penalty points since 2018. GlasgowLive reports that councillors refused to renew Mr Singh’s private hire licence after hearing of his three offences at a recent council meeting.
He told politicians he completed a manoeuvre passing a 30mph “old” woman driver on a 60mph stretch to get to his wife. Mrs Singh’s blood sugar had dropped whilst out shopping. But politicians on the Licensing and Regulatory Committee had no sympathy for Mr Singh when they heard all the details saying there is no excuse for driving inconsiderately. Answering questions about the points accrued, Mr Singh confirmed he drove
at “90 plus” miles per hour on the motorway in 2018 in a rush to pick up his cousin. Blasting it as “unacceptable,” Cllr Wilson said: “You were lucky you didn’t have an accident.” The meeting heard Mr Singh didn’t have any passengers in the car during the incidents. He currently has six points on his licence after three from 2018 expired recently. Police Scotland objected to the renewal of his private hire licence.
WAKEFIELD CABBIE FAILS TO CHALLENGE SUITABILITY POLICY AND REGAIN LICENCE
Wakefield Council has pledged to continue working with taxi drivers after successfully defending a licensing decision in court. According to the Wakefield Citizen, Sohail Shah, from Wakefield, had appealed against the loss of his hackney carriage licence. Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday 27 August that Shah had accrued nine penalty points under the suitability policy that was approved by the Licensing Committee in September 2019, where seven penalty points can lead to a licence being
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refused or revoked. The suitability policy took effect from 1 September 2019 and Shah already had six penalty points on his licence when he applied to renew it in July 2019. Another three penalty points were added after his licence renewal application had been made but before the new suitability policy began. The court heard that Shah’s criminal records form was not received until November 2019. This meant the Council could only consider Shah’s licence application in accordance with the new suitability policy, which had by
then come into force. Magistrates accepted the Council was right in its decision that there were no grounds to depart from this policy. The appeal was dismissed and Shah was ordered to pay £3,000 in costs to the Council. Cllr Maureen Cummings, Cabinet Member for Communities, Poverty and Health, said: “We know how difficult it’s been for taxi drivers throughout the pandemic. We will continue working with the licensed trade to help taxi drivers with the licence renewal process so that they can continue working.”
OCTOBER 2021
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