Peter Wright: [2018] UKUT 107 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Beech on 5 April 2018.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 13 April 2018

• Categories: Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals
• Sub-categories: Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Discretionary Issues, Transport - traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Public Service Vehicles, Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Repute & Fitness
• Judges: Beech, J
• Decision date: 5 April 2018

Read the full decision in T/68/2017.

Judicial Summary

Discretion and proportionality

Interpretation of Schedule 3 of the Public Passenger Vehicles

Application for an Operator’s Licence by a company/director/transport manager having previously lost their good repute and an operator’s licence revoked. The issues raised were whether a conviction was required before a finding of loss of repute could be made; the compatibility of the Traffic Commissioner’s decision with the Bill of Rights Act 1688 (among other statutes). Proportionality.

Published 13 April 2018