Case No. UKUT-5-(AAC)

20.It is important to note at the outset, that the Appellant’s grounds of appeal had changed by the point of service of the skeleton argument prepared by Counsel and served in advance of the appeal hearing on 25 October 2022. The focus of the appeal hearing was therefore on two matters alone: the question of whether the case should have been adjourned, and the decision to indefinitely disqualify the Appellant from holding an operator’s licence and from acting as a Transport Manager. The decision of the Deputy Presiding Officer to revoke the Appellant’s operator’s licence was no longer in issue in the appeal before the Upper Tribunal. Our decision therefore focusses on these two matters only, these being the only contested decisions both in written, and in oral submissions on the day of the hearing.