“… operator’s licence to FREE NOW. UTAG sought judicial review of that decision on two grounds. One was that (as suggested by Lord Leggatt JSC in Uber BV v Aslam [2021] ICR 657) the 1998 Act required the passenger’s contract to be with the operator rather than with the driver. On 6 December 2021 the Divisional Court (Males LJ and Fras…”
“…I should mention that on this point HMRC relied on a passage from Lord Leggatt’s judgment in Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5; [2021] ICR 657 at [85] to submit that such statements were of no effect and should be ignored. As Lord Leggatt’s judgment makes clear, it is concerned with the statutory defi…”
“…Since the hearing of the present case by the UT, the Supreme Court has given judgment in Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5; [2021] ICR 657. The issue was whether Uber drivers were “workers” so as to qualify for benefits under the same regulations as were in issue in Autoclenz and for rights in res…”