Very Courteous"
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raise this point of the appeal in this court. It seems to me to amount to pressure."
Mr. Merritt: " I am quite certain that would be entirely superfluous. All I say is that if you want to take this evidence into consideration you want to take the same evidence before the Appeal Tribunal."
Miss Cynthia Olivant, managing director of Quayside Transport, Ltd., stated, in evidence, that the circumstances had not altered since the hearing of the previous application.
Mr. F. G. Bibbings, Yorkshire Area secretary of Associated Road Operators, who appeared for applicant, suggested that the position taken up by the objector was merely an ingenious attempt on the part of that body to obtain a locus after it had been held that it had no locus.
In granting the application the Deputy Licensing Authority remarked that reference had been made to the possibility of an appeal, and he added: " I should be very foolish if I said anything contrary to the statutory right of every objector to appeal. I should be equally foolish if I were moved either to the right or the left, or in any other direction, merely by the fact that an appeal is going forward. I have no difficulty at all in permitting the regrant of the licence."