Uber will be enabled to continue operating in London complying with a successful court charm against transfer for London’s (TfL) decision to revoke its licence last year.
Deputy senior judge Tan Ikram at Westminster Magistrates Court ruled that “despite historical failings” Uber is now “fit as well as proper” to operate in the UK’s funding city – a decision that will bring certainty for the 45,000 drivers who utilize the app in London.
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In November 2019, TfL accused Uber of putting passengers at danger after a modification to the firm’s systems allowed unauthorised drivers to upload their pictures to other Uber driver accounts. These drivers might then pick up passengers as though they were the booked driver. The court heard that 14,788 such journeys had taken place in London.
Another breach saw Uber drivers who had been either dismissed or suspended being able to produce a new account as well as continue bring passengers. In addition, TfL determined what it called at the time “several insurance-related issues”.
Despite Uber’s court victory, the firm’s new licence – which will run for 18 months – will include a number of conditions that enable TfL to ensure the appropriate regulations are being obeyed.

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The ruling brings an end to a battle that’s been going on since September 2017, when TfL at first refused to renew Uber’s operating licence. This led to a court appeal, the result of which was Uber winning a renewed 15-month licence in June 2018. It then got a two-month extension to its licence in September 2019, before TfL once again refused to renew it in November of that year.
Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ association (an interested celebration in the case), commented: “Today’s decision is a catastrophe for London. Uber has demonstrated time as well as time once again that it just can’t be trusted to put the security of Londoners, its drivers as well as other road individuals above profit. Sadly, it seems that Uber is as well huge to control effectively, however as well huge to fail.”
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