{"id":90298,"date":"1999-12-31T00:26:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/cabbies-vigilante-take-uber-to-court-seeking-nsw-ban\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:26:00","slug":"cabbies-vigilante-take-uber-to-court-seeking-nsw-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/cabbies-vigilante-take-uber-to-court-seeking-nsw-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabbies, Vigilante Take Uber To Court, Seeking NSW Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing service Uber has been taken to the NSW Supreme Court by a group claimed to represent taxi drivers and a Sydney man who is said to perform citizen arrests on unwitting Uber drivers.<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;\">The Australian Taxi Drivers Association and self-styled anti-Uber vigilante Russell Howarth have filed documents asking the court to ban UberX Australia from offering smartphone apps that allow &#8220;unaccredited persons&#8221; to carry paying passengers within NSW.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;\">The injunction, if granted, would only affect the UberX service, not UberTaxi or UberBlack, which provide services licensed under existing legislation.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;\">Documents filed in the court argue that Uber BV &#8211; a Netherlands-registered company that provides Uber&#8217;s platform and technology &#8211; is aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a contravention of the Passenger Transport Act.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing service Uber has been taken to the NSW Supreme Court by a group claimed to represent taxi drivers and a Sydney man who is said to perform citizen arrests on unwitting Uber drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-technology","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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