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understand how it's got that far"

But the FTA's Gavin Scott says he is sure Lord McEwan must have been mistaken. He would have had the Transport Tribunal decision in front of him and he [presumably] didn't know it was under English jurisdiction. They should have appealed to an English Court of Appeal — it was an English case in the first place."

A Glasgow-based solicitor says: "It's a valid court order on the face of it; [but] I don't understand how it's got that far."

A TC's spokesman insists the companies remain within Macartney's remit and are running on their original licences. He adds the Traffic Area Office is taking legal advice on whether the decision was made outside the Court of Session's jurisdiction — something Hayden refutes.

Euan Duthie of Edinburghbased Burness Solicitors, acting for both companies declines to comment.


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