Yes, good to see the law catching up with talk it up tim (I've been told that was his nickname during his apprenticeship). I think its going a bit far to say peoples "lives were in Jeopardy" though. Never worked with him, but I have come across some LAME's who are very scary in action! Who's to say Tim was not a good engineer? A fraud, yes, a bad engineer? Who knows.
Quite agree. Who needs a licence? Same should apply to pilots, ATC and the rest. Think of the money saved.