A former Uber driver from High Wycombe who won a landmark case against the taxi giant has been named as one of the 100 most influential people shaping British technology.

Yaseen Aslam, along with his colleague James Farrar, were the co-lead claimants in the successful worker rights claim against Uber - and they have now been recognised in the UK Tech 100 by Business Insider.

The pair brought an employment case against Uber with trade union GMB on behalf of a group of 19 of its workers, who argued they were employed by the firm rather than being limb B workers - a legal term to describe a self-employed person who carries out their work as part of someone else’s business - because they were “being told how to do their jobs”.

After a ruling in 2016, in which the judge agreed that Uber drivers are not self-employed and should be granted basic employment rights such as being paid the national minimum wage and getting holiday pay, the company appealed the decision – and lost at the end of 2018.

Business Insider put the duo at number 80 on the list, citing their "sensational" UK High Court battle, which they say "has continued to reverberate even as Uber has became a multibillion-dollar public company".

They said: "Farrar and Aslam upended Uber's arguments that it didn't have to give drivers basic employment rights such as holiday pay. More generally, Farrar and Aslam's case raised public awareness of how precarious it is to work for the new breed of 'gig-economy' firms."

In response to the list, which runs every year to showcase the 100 most influential and interesting people impacting the British technology industry, Mr Aslam said he was "pleased to see some recognition for our hard work".