Ha so much for listening to the voters! etc etc; what a hypocrite.

What about BS Boris?

We could have a whip-round for Jackie. Who'll count the lashes?

You Bombaymix, was no news good news then?

Yes O/C- see they even state themselves 'N.B. PLEASE NOTE THAT GRAY HOOPER HOLT NO LONGER CARRY OUT LEGAL AID WORK IN THIS AREA. ALL CLIENTS ARE REPRESENTED ON A PRIVATE BASIS' which is pretty emphatic!!! lol

That rather depends on your point of view. If successfully prosecuted, the Court will award a fine against you as puniishment for the particular offence, but also the company's legal costs, and a 'victim surcharge' to pay for the Court's time, against you. So on the whole everyone gets their money back... out of you On a more positive note, your prospective University is phenomenally unlikely to give a monkey's about your fare evasion.

I see they list some 'successful' case studies here: http://www.grayhooperholt.co.uk/successful-fare-evasion-cases.html I note that the vast majority involve making 'detailed representations' to the prosecutors- in other words, exactly what you are being advised to do here, except saving you £1500 See, likewise, those cases did not involve proving the company to be 'in the wrong' or without legal foundation, but achieving administrative- out of court- settlements; again what is being advised here. I in no way criticise or defend anyone using this or any other firm for this purpose, but would merely point out that in the context of 'value for money' any expenditure appears to for very little more than you could actually do yourself.

Or: "So busy knocking on the door, that, ma fois, they do not notice it is already open."

It would probably help if the OP chooses a slightly more user-friendly font too. At the moment it looks like the biography of a hawthorn bush.

Yeah good stuff Poldardk well done

Wot the **** were q's 5 and 7 all about?!

What's the odds of even getting a mobile phone signal 30,000 feet above thousands of square miles of ocean?

Are they indeed. What exactly is their area of specialism and what is their pro rata success rate with cases under railway Bylaws? I would want (positive) answers to these questions from them before I parted with my f-oldin' money!!!

Some members here could misunderstand this of course.

It was not a summons. it is a letter from a railway prosecutor. Ergo two different things. Where's my Davey lamp?! LOL

lol

Err nice one CoalMonkey LOL but perhaps let's not cross our bridges before they've hatched... what you suggest is much further down the line as yet and their is still much to be done re. the actual case.

so u say lol

No, as O/C said above, if they were going to proceed with it, it would have been a prosecution under the statute rather than the bylaw (being, as it were, 'bang to rights').

Yeah spot on! Best of luck

Yes it rather sounds- only sounds, mind you- as if perhaps the original provision of false details was not mentioned in the Inspector's report after all.

lol good one

Of course, some people prefer their Bic Mag as Ronald intended it: with added thiamin mononitrate, ethoxylated monoglycerides, and sodium stearoyl lactylate lol

Yeah- remember Del Marr from Westcliffe-on-Sea, waiting every evening for them to fill the reduced shelf up. Goes in the basket as fast as they label it!!! LOL

Does anybody grow their own? I'm thinking coriander particularly?