The CAB ruled out the weather conditions and the airworthiness of the two planes as factors in the collision.
(Not giving anything to male passengers was a big no-no, the CAB ruled, constituting preferential treatment).
37 Change in Taxi Rules Sought The head of the livery-cab drivers' association repeated his pleas to drivers to install bullet-proof partitions, but then called for allowing such cabs to pick up passengers on the street.
The handbook is not aimed at any particular section of the population: "The cab rank rule (the rule which says barristers must not turn away clients who want to instruct them) means that as a barrister I represent mums, dads, partners and kids in pretty much equal measure," she says.
He was criticised for taking on clients like Asil Nadir or the businessman Owen Oyston, convicted of rape, but he was faithful to the "cab rank" rule that stops barristers turning down cases they don't want.
After the first official licensing of hackney carriage drivers in 1838 and the formalisation, decades later, of "the Knowledge", London's black cab drivers ruled the roads more or less unchallenged.
Under the cab-rank rule, a barrister is obliged to accept any work in a field in which they profess themselves competent to practise.
And he would probably cite the Bar's cab-rank rule, which stipulates that a barrister, like a taxi, is for hire to all comers.
On the contrary, since under the cab-rank rule barristers are obliged to accept any case that falls within their specialisation, I was in fact precluded from picking and choosing my cases, and was thus protected from such accusations.
Scrivener was a champion of the bar's so-called and often breached "cab-rank" rule in which a barrister is required, subject to availability, to take on any case, however unpopular the defendant or party might be.
