[2024] UKUT 46 (AAC)

This is an appeal by Mr. Kevin Roy Griggs, trading as KDP Skips and Waste Removal, against the decision of the Deputy Traffic Commissioner for the East of England Traffic Area (“the TC”) given on 10^th February 2023. By his decision the TC revoked Mr. Griggs’s restricted goods vehicle operator’s licence from 00.01 on 13^th March 2023 and disqualified him from holding an operator’s licence and from being the director of a company holding or obtaining such a licence for the 12 month period from the revocation until 13^th March 2024.

Those parts of the TC’s decision were made under the provisions of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995. The TC also revoked Mr. Griggs’s vocational driving entitlement and disqualified him from driving large goods vehicles for 12 months. The TC’s power to do so, however, was derived from the Road Traffic Act 1988 and under s.119 of that Act any appeal must be made to the magistrates’ court rather than to the Upper Tribunal.