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C-licence Traffic or Not?

14th September 1962
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

I N Glasgow last week Mr. John Geurts applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority on behalf of John Geurts and Co., of Greengairs, Lanarkshire, for a B licence for five C-licensed vehicles owned by his company and for three C-licensed vehicles owned by an associated company. the Lanarkshire Moss Litter Co. Mr. J. Geurts and his brother are sole owners of the applicant company and of the Lanarkshire Moss Litter Co. The police had given a warning that it was illegal to use the applicant company's Clicence vehicles, as they had been doing, to carry goods for Lanarkshire Moss Litter. This was the reason for the present application.

The Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin. said. "If a company owns 90 per cent. of the shares in an associated. corn New Tribunal President THE QUEEN has approved the appointment of Mr, George Drewry Squibb, Q.C., to be a member and the president of the Transport Tribunal from last Tuesday. in succession to Sir Hubert Hull:

Mr. Squibb. who is 55 years of age, was educated at King's School, Chester, and Queen's College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1930 and became a Bencher in 1951. He has practised at the • Bar mainly in rating cases, in Parliamentary work and in planning and local government inquiries. He will retain his unpaid appointments as chairman of Dorset Quarter Sessions and Norfolk Herald Extraordinary. Mr. Squibb deputized for Sir Hubert Hull in 1960.

pany it is permitted to carry goods for that eompany in its own vehicles."

Mr. Geurts: " But it is not a limited liability company and there are no shares."

Mr. R. McKenzie, solicitor for the applicant. said: " Despite this, if this case had gone to the Sheriff Court I would have been prepared to argue, without putting my tongue in my cheek, that he was perfectly entitled to carry these goods on his existing C-licence vehicles."

His client had given a declaration that if the application was granted the vehicles • would only be used to carry goods for the applicant company and its associated company.

Mr. Quin adjourned the case to have another look at the Act and its stipulations on the subject.


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