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31st October 1981
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AN APPEAL against a judgment by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority was turned down by the Transport Tribunal in London last week.

The Tribunal endorsed the decision of the LA, saying that a man who could not gain a certificate of professional competence was not likely to inspire confidence in customers.

Frederick Brown, trading as F. G. Brown Haulage, had been ref used a renewal of his Operator's Licence, and therefore stood the risk of losing access to his life-long profession. The LA's refusal to renew his 0-licence was because Mr Brown had failed the CPC exam.

• The basis of the appeal was that Mr Brown had been "very unlucky" is missing the grandfather rights by two months. These rights enabled operators trading before January 1, 1975 to be excluded from sitting the examination.

Counsel for Mr Brown, Robin Miric, claimed that his client had not fully understood the grandfather rights, and therefore found himself in the position of losing his licence.

When suggested that Mr Brown should be given an interim licence to give him time to re-sit the CPC, Mr Brown said there was no point, as he was not capable of passing such an academic test.


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