Appeal in Private-hire Case Succeeds
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THE Justiciary Appeal Court, in Edinburgh, last week, overruled a decision at Dundee Sheriff Court, when a case against Dundee Corporation concerning private-party work was .dismissed. The corporation had been accused of permitting the use of a bus as an express carriage without holding a road service licence. Two buses had been used for a late-night dance, and passengers were carried different distances.
Giving judgment in favour of the Crown, Lord Thomson, Lord Chief Justice Clerk, said that many of the passengers alighted a short distance from the dance hat], and when the bus was stopped by the police there were only 19 left. The others had been taken to various residential parts.
• It seemed impossible to reach the conclusion that this was a journey to a particular destination, or that when the passengers got off at all kinds of places they could reasonably be described as alighting from the bus in the vicinity of a particular destination.
In his view, this elaborate route was not within the regulations, nor could it be said that there was substantial com pliance with the regulations. Lords Patrick and Mackintosh concurred.