London Cabbies Plan To Sue Uber

LONDON Cabbies Plan To Sue Uber for damages

A group reported being of as many as 4000 of London’s black cab drivers are planning legal action against ride-hailing app firm Uber, to sue them for millions of pounds, for unlawful operation in the city over a period of six years, and hope to bring the case to court early in 2022.

The cabbies have hired law firm Mishcon de Reya to represent them in the case in which they claim Uber broke London’s private hire rules, and during the alleged breach, undercut them, while operating illegally between 2012 and 2018, resulting in a loss of earnings for the cabbies.

London’s taxi law states that black cabs can be hailed in the street, but that a minicab must be booked through an office, and the case for the black-cab drivers is that Uber broke those rules by allowing customers to hail their cabs directly in the street.