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hgv trainee driver alleged t an excessive amount of e was wasted on a training irse run by the Birmingham Lining Group, when he ;uccessfully sued them for return of his course fee, at mingham County Court.
1e complained of late starts, ly finishes, excessive time nt in cafes and time wasted ough the instructor attendto personal business durcourse time.
toy Stanley Batten, of 199 iswick Village, London, o walked out on the sixth 7 of a 10-day course, was iming the return of £226.80. le said he started the course June 7, 1976. After class ■ rn instruction on the first y, he was assigned to an tructor, a Mr Kelly, for .ctical instruction.
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t was not until then that he used each instructor was ponsible for two trainees. doubted whether he would fe entered the contract, in !first place, if he had known was not going to get the lividual tuition he expected. Ehe second Monday of the Irse was "a nonsense" he d, because it was a virtual 3lication of the first Mony. As a result, he lost inter in the course and, next irning, he went to group ining officer and told him was withdrawing.
-le estimated that a total of ,2 per cent of training time s wasted and he did not feel could have reached the mired standard to pass the v driving test in the time naming.
uestioned by J. E. Mitting, • the Group, Mr Batten said had not made any cornit to Group staff before his :hdrawal. He had no preus experience of hgv driv;.
-le denied that he had disvered, during the course, it he had no aptitude for hgv ving, or that he had been ticised by Mr Kelly, on a mber of occasions, for driv; dangerously. Group training development officer of the Road Transport Industry Training Board, Colin Edwards, said he had investigated the matter and in his opinion, Mr Batten's failure was primarily due to his own inadequacy, not to any defect in the training. Dismissing the action, with costs against Mr Batten, Judge J. Perrett said he did not find there was any implied term of contract that there should be individual instruction. Even if there had been, Mr Batten had accepted the situation by continuing after the first day.