Had managers ignored their own lawyers’ hideously expensive advice that the app was legal and refused the licence application, today’s ruling removes any doubt about how easily Uber could have overturned that decision.
Court rules Uber app does not breach taximeter rules
A High Court judge has ruled that the smartphone app used by the Google-backed car service Uber to calculate fares does not breach laws forbidding minicabs from fitting taximeters in their vehicles.
Is TfL really in Uber’s pocket, out to get them or simply a regulator doing its job?
Relations between black cab drivers and TfL have long been bad and it’d take more than removing Uber from London’s streets to change that.
New TfL minicab rules could threaten future of Uber’s app
Uber has been the subject of growing numbers of complaints from black cab driver who believe its booking and payment app breaches rules banning minicabs from using a meter to calculate fares.
London’s High Court to hear case against Uber’s fares app this Summer
Lawyers advising Transport for London, which regulates both Taxis and minicabs, believe the app is legal but the mayor’s transport agency wants the court to make a final ruling because some aspects of the law are “unclear”.
