Appeal Court throws out cabbie’s claim

An appeal by London cabbies against a ruling in favour of Uber by a judge they claimed was biased has been thrown out. United Cabbies Group Ltd (UCG), representing Hackney Carriage drivers, argued Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot’s decision to grant Uber a 15-month permit was ‘tainted by actual or apparent bias’. They argued she had applied the wrong legal test and her husband, Lord Arbuthnot, financial connection with Uber, made her unfit to preside over the case. But in a…