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ASE HISTORIES
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client was accused of uggling arms to Nigeria er boxes for a conler labelled "car Aeries" were found to itain weapons. He had : checked the boxes. defendant felt ssimistic but was quitted. Backhouse is this was a situation iny operators could themselves in.
curtainsider going anhill shed a cage carrying brake parts and a woman pedestrian was killed. The police claimed the load was insecure. However, a witness reported that the vehicle had slid 180° and that the road was greasy. Backhouse Jones sent an accident analyst to the scene who discovered that vehicles from a nearby business had left a diesel slick on the road. On the day of the accident the road was also icy. These factors had combined to send the truck into a lamp post, damaging its curtain. Backhouse Jones won the case.
A public inquiry was launched into a series of overloading offences by a number of hauliers in quarries. Traffic Commissioner David Dixon took action against several of them, while accepting they all felt they had to commit the offences to make a living. "He was saying to them, whatever the business circumstances you won't do it again or you will be revoked," says James Backhouse, who represented one of the hauliers. "My client is now making more money without falsification than before. They took a long hard look at their work and organised it in a much more efficient way."