We feared last week's article about road transport lawyer Murray Oliver - in which he claimed to be the first solicitor to hold both a class 1 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) licence and a public service vehicle licence too (see [2005] Gazette, 21 April, 4) - might prompt a response. And so it proved. Tony Spiers, a probate partner at Michelmores in Exeter, writes in to say Mr Oliver is ten years too late as he passed both tests back in 1992. Meanwhile, Jonathan Butler of Butler & Co in Telford, reports that he obtained his class 1 HGV licence back in 1973. 'It gets little use nowadays,' he says, 'although I drove England's competitor and his tractor to the European ploughing championships in Vienna where I was also judging a few years ago'. All very interesting, but in the absence of further visual evidence, we think Mr Oliver remains the only solicitor who actually dresses like a bus driver when driving a bus.
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