(1) K & B Haulage Ltd; (2) Kyle Gettings (T): [2025] UKUT 328 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge on Mitchell 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 24 October 2025

• Categories: Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals
• Sub-categories: Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Disqualification and Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Revocation, Suspension and Curtailment
• Judges: Mitchell, E
• Decision date: 25 September 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2025-000137-T.

Judicial Summary

The Traffic Commissioner properly considered whether revocation of an operator’s licence and disqualification orders were a proportionate regulatory response. In fact, the Commissioner’s careful questioning of the operator at a public inquiry about the likely consequences of different degrees of regulatory intervention, may, in the Upper Tribunal’s view, properly be considered a model of informed proportionality enquiry.

Published 24 October 2025