Following on from my previous posting on this thread. Anyone searching the web for the case on the student girl who had her case looked on sympathetically by Chester Court. There is some misinfo in the press articles as the first letter of the 1st name of her solicitor should have been an 'E' instead of an 'I'. I contacted the same set of solicitors and was advised that the solicitor in question had passed away in late 2010. Further I was advised that from this death, the practice had been taken over by another firm. Further there was no residual knowledge of the merseyrail case with anyone else in the firm. Without going into detail I felt very strongly that the feet on frame case against me was a nonsense. For example there was no notice in the carriage explaining that the frame is considered part of the seat. Regardless of this Merseyrail took what I read as a bullying approach in the follow up correspondence that they sent to me. There was no reference to the short comings on their side and they were insistent that I had committed an offence. Rather than accept this I engaged a solicitor with the intention of defending my position as to accept the reprimand would have meant that I had to accept I committed an offence. Under the circumstances I strongly felt that I had not committed an offence. The solicitor in question approached Merseyrail pointing out the short comings in their case against me. From this Merseyrail have dropped their proceedings against me. The solicitor bill has arrived, £108.

I am sure at least some people are aware of this from 2007 where a student girl was prosecuted for having her feet on ythe seat but was looked upon sympathetically by the court. If you search on the internet for it, it is very easy to find.