Taxi driver Raj Naresh - who has a raft of driving and criminal convictions - has had his passenger licence revoked.

A driver with more than 100 traffic violations and a dozen criminal convictions has had his taxi licence revoked.

Raj Naresh, a 40-year driving veteran, has been stripped of his passenger licence by the NZ Transport Agency as he is no longer considered "a fit and proper person to be a taxi driver".

Since starting as a taxi driver in 1975, Naresh has racked up 110 traffic-related offences, 12 criminal convictions, a further three criminal offences where he was discharged without conviction, 17 regulatory offences, 50 documented "complaints about his activity and behaviour as a taxi driver", and six transport licensing sanctions.

In a High Court decision released this month, NZTA also described Naresh as having "a persistent and lengthy history of antagonism towards, and obstruction of, enforcement officer in [the] execution of [their] duty … of bringing unmeritorious complaints against officers … and of giving false or misleading information".

Following a decision by the NZTA to revoke the "P endorsement" on his licence, Naresh appealed first to the District Court and then to the High Court.

A passenger (or P) endorsement is what a driver needs to drive taxis, buses, shuttles or "any other type of passenger service vehicle, and you are getting paid for it or receiving any type of reward".

The NZTA had sought to ban Naresh from obtaining a P endorsement for eight years.

In his High Court decision, Justice Timothy Brewer said Naresh "had not been a good taxi driver" and had a "poor record".

The District Court reduced the revocation period to six years, and backdated it to the end of his last P endorsement in 2011 - which meant, as Justice Brewer explained, "the eight years prohibition was reduced to about three years".

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Naresh appealed against the District Court decision to side with NZTA, but Justice Brewer in the High Court stuck to the same sentence.

"The appeal is dismissed".

Naresh should be able to reapply for a P endorsement on his licence in June 2017.

Roger Heale, the executive director of the New Zealand Taxi Federation, said drivers like Naresh were not the norm.

"You'd have to wonder how this person passed his 'fit and proper' year after year. We want to raise the standard.

"You might find that he doesn't belong to one of the more reputable [taxi] companies."

It is not known who Naresh has been driving for in recent years.

The High Court judgment noted, though, that there were also other occasions in the past hat Naresh had lost his passenger licence.

"Because of his conduct, both in relation to his driving and in relation to criminal offending, there have been [other] periods where his licence to drive a taxi has been revoked."

It is not clear from the court judgment what Naresh's 12 criminal convictions were for.

His three criminal offences for which he was discharged without conviction, however, are recorded.

The first occasion was for receiving stolen property in 2009.

In 2011 he was charged with misleading a social welfare officer and was ordered to repay almost $5000.

Finally, he received a third discharge without conviction in 2012 for "male assaults female".