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That’s how it’s supposed to work. However, if the card machine is incorrectly configured it might not distinguish between physical cards and Apple Pay. Instead, treating them as the same as physical contactless transactions and limiting to £100.

Indeed. Airlines don’t like people split ticketing or buying a cheaper return ticket, but only travelling one way. The difference is airlines don’t have laws available to prosecute people for it. So the best they can do is refuse service in the future. The whole concept of a for-profit...

OK, thanks for your help.

Hi, I'm hoping someone can guide me to the correct path for getting money back on an unused portion of a return ticket. We were traveling into London today on the line from Twyford to Tottenham Court Road. We woke up to the news about the derailed freight train, but the Elizebeth line was...

Such as an indepent report commisioned by the Post Office that concludes the computer system is faulty? That's the disclosure that Post Office repeatedly failed to provide to defendents.

You're statement in bold is not correct. The law is that computer evidence is presumed to be correct unless evidence to the contrary is cited. It's not for the defendent to "prove" it's incorrect. Only that the presumption is that it is unless there is evidence to the contrary. A report by an...

Post Office lawyers failed to disclose other cases where the Horizon system was alleged to be at fault and failed to disclose expert witness reports saying the same. CPS lawyers might not have been so willing to commit acts of, at best, professional misconduct, in order to protect their employer.

I think "the next train" is arguably ambiguous. You could interpret it to mean "the next train you are able to take", which in your case was the earlier train. Rather than "the next train", meaning "the next train that leaves at a later time." Given the wording on the Northern site, that seems...

And the railway chooses to not train staff properly because it saves them money. Knowing that most people will not risk a criminal conviction to challenge the resulting accusation of traveling with an invalid ticket due to information relied from a railway employee. So customers are expected...

Yes It’s not just “some” it’s how the law works. In civil and criminal suits the court would only award the company their actual losses. What encourages “pay when challenged” is that tickets are only rarely checked in an effort to save money. 1701703738 Then the railway representative could...

That may be, but the original point is that people are too afraid to go to court due to possibility of a criminal record and what that means ( rightly or wrongly) compared to a civil suit. This means the railway gets to force settlement that enrich themselves above their actual losses, for...

Perhaps, but would the average person know that and risk going to court over it? And there certainly is a realistic possibility of a criminal record which could be equally career limiting. I bet all those poor postmasters who were stitched up by fraudulent Royal Mail prosecutors didn’t think...

I think the fact that parking charges are civil and depend on contract law. The consequences of going to court over a parking charge is, at most, monetary. However, the railways have managed to get laws passed that turn what, in any other industry, would be contract violations into criminal...

I think it’s completely unreasonable to expect anyone who isn’t a train enthusiast to know that. Especially someone who is new to the country or doesn’t use the trains very often.

Certainly airlines sell tickets for routes A -> B -> C where the A -> C ticket is cheaper than the A ->B ticket for the same flight. People have dicovered this and take advantage when they only want to go to B. It's against the airlines Ts and Cs, but it's not illegal and multiple airlines...