TRIBUNAL RE-OPENS WALKER APPEAL
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FOLLOWING the Scottish Court of
Session ruling in the John Russell (Grangemouth) Ltd. appeal judgment (reported in The Commercial Motor, July 24) the Transport Tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh on Tuesday, re-opened the appeal of William Walker of Aberdeen. Last July, the Tribunal rejected Walker's appeal, which was against the refusal of the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority to grant a two-vehicle A licence for timber extraction haulage. (The Commercial Motor, July 17).
Mr. G. D. Squibb, president of the Tribunal, said that had the Russell judgment been available at the time of the Walker appeal hearing, the Tribunal's judgment might well have been different.
On behalf of the respondents, British Railways, it was contended on Tuesday that a re-hearing of a case was only possible in Scotland when the judges failed to reach a decision. Any decision reached in open court must stand and it was not open to the Tribunal to raise the matter again, as they had done for Walker.
After hearing a submission that the Walker appeal be reconsidered, the Tribunal reserved judgment.
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