High court backs LA's appeal
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• The Eastern Licensing Authority was given leave in the High Court last Friday to challenge an order of magistrates sitting at Ipswich on January 14 that the Authority should grant Mr Robert Frederick Kenneth Callaway, 36, of Defoe Road, Ipswich, a heavy goods vehicle driver's licence.
Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice IvIelford Stevenson and Mr Justice Cooke, sitting in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court, granted an application by Mr Gordon Slynn, counsel for the LA, for leave to apply for an order quashing the magistrates' order. Mr Callaway was not present and not represented at Friday's hearing.
Mr Sly nn said Mr Callaway had appealed successfully to the magistrates against the LA's refusal to grant him a licen ce.
In the submission of the LA, the magistrates were wrong because Mr Callaway had been driving for only four-and-a-half months instead of the required six months.