[2012] EWHC 278 (Admin)

A magistrates' court had erred in staying as an abuse of process a prosecution brought by a local authority against an individual for operating a private hire vehicle without a licence. The local authority had not entrapped him in carrying out a "test purchase" by booking his vehicle in response to a newspaper advertisement he had placed offering his services.

DC (Richards LJ, Cranston J)

27/01/2012