"This isn't about shady practices like Crossley was found guilty of, it's about someone standing up for "right" and big business using massive legal bills to try and stop him taking it further."
This might be plausible if he hadn't accepted a massive payoff from the black cab trade into his "crowdfunding" campaign. In the richest of ironies, those monies aren't subject to tax because they're considered "donations."
"This guy is trying to get a ruling on the VAT - and if he wins it sounds like Uber could be on the hook for a very very large amount of cash."
His estimate is utterly preposterous. Even if he did somehow magically win back VAT for every ride provided by Uber in the UK & EU to date, it'd likely be an eight-figure sum, not ten (!!).
"It sounds like they are deliberately loading up the legal fees - nah, one barrister isn't enough, lets use 5, sort of thing - in an attempt to frighten him off."
Having worked with barristers on various legal matters on numerous occasions, the fees sound typical to me. It costs a bloody fortune to pursue cases in courts of law.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
