Appeal against liquidation fines
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• A Crown Court judge wants details of the liquidation of Halifax haulage company A Wilby before deciding whether fines imposed on director Andrew Wilby are too high. Wilby had appealed to Bradford Crown Court against fines
and costs totalling £7,859.80 imposed by Halifax magistrates after they had convicted him in his absence of five offences of using a vehicle which was the subject of a prohibition notice and seven drivers' hours and tachograph offences. For the Vehicle Inspectorate, Jonathan Godfrey said Wilby had said he had not realised the prohibition was still in force. Wilby had said he had exceeded the drivers hours limits when carrying road salt as he had thought that there was an emergency on. For Wilby, Scot Wilson said he had essentially been fined 25,000 for driving around with a cracked exhaust, spray suparession equipment clogged with mud and a worn rubber busi on a roll bar that was optional. Wilby was the company's only driver at the time and the hours offences were committed because the company was in severe financial difficulty. The company was now in liquidation and Wilby was working as a driver earning £230 a week. He still owed the bank £20,000. Adjourning the appeal, Judge Alistair McCallum said he needed more detail the liquidation of the company and Wilby's finances.