Revocation Without Notice prong ?
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AT an appeal. hearing at Newcastle upon Tyne last week, Mr. T. H. C. WardlaW subtnitted that it was wrong for a Licensing Authority to withdraw without notice a road service licence granted to a Bishop Auckland operator.
Mr. Wardiaw was appearing for Mr. Donald P. Tallintire, Arthur Terrace, Cockton Hill, Bishop Auckland, whose licence to operate a stage service from Escombe to Bishop Auckland, via Tindale Crescent and Woodhouses, granted in May this year, had been revoked without his being given notice that such action was being considered.
Mr. Wardlaw said that objections to the grant of the licence were withdrawn on certain conditions being agreed to.
On July 27,: his client applied for variations to his licence. His solicitor Was told just before the hearing that the objectors would raise a matter that .concerned events that had taken place two or three days before in the Bishop Auckland magistrates' court.
Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for United Automobile Services, Ltd., who had prosecuted for the Authority in the magistrates' court, said that Mr. Tallintire had•been fined on 10 charges, covering a period from June 14-30, of contravening the terms of his licence.
The appellant, said Mr. Croft, had been warned on May 27 by one of the. Authority's inspectors., As a result, his licence had been revoked.
Mr. R. G. Hunter, for the Northern Road Transport Owners Association, said the Authority had power to revoke a licence at any time he thought fit. This was a licence granted on the • distinct understanding that the conditions would be adhered to, and it was revoked after Mr. Tallintire had repeatedly broken them and had been prosecuted after having been warned several times.
The Ministry of Transport inspector, Mr. J. M. Glen, said he would consider the case and send his recommendations to the Minister.
"THE LITTLE RED ROOK"
THE value of that hardy annual, The Little Red Book, increases with every issue. Anyone concerned with passenger transport cannot fail to find something of interest, if not of actual use, in the 1955-6 issue, which has just been published.
It lists details of more than 1,600 municipal, coMpany and private operators, which is a substantial increase on the numbers represented in the previous issue. The use of guide cards has been increased and there are now 14 subdivisions.
The Little Red Book is available from Passenger Transport, Avenue Chambers, Vernon Mace, London, "W.C1, at 7s. 6d. (7s. 9d by post).
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