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I've often wondered what the response would be to a foreign resident who insisted on providing their home address and not a hotel address. After all, a hotel address is not truly 'their address' particularly if they are about to (or have already) checked out. It's not a reliable correspondence...

Only some revenue inspectors can issue Penalty Fares. This is because issuing a Penalty Fare is itself a demand for that payment - the Penalty Fare Regulations say that once a Penalty Fare is issued it is money that is due to the operator (although there are routes to appeal). Only specifically...

Can you post a redacted image of what you have received, so it's clear whether this is a letter from an operator telling you that they believe someone stopped you at a station without a ticket, or if it is in fact communication from/in the name of a magistrates' court? If it's the latter, which...

The lesson the train companies want people who are issued Penalty Fares to learn - and, potentially, for people they talk to about the penalty to learn - is that every railway passenger should make sure they know, and are correct, that they have a valid ticket before they get on a train. The...

There is a difference between what law firms were doing which was challenged in Mazur and railway crime prosecutions, because Mazur was about unauthorised persons doing all or most of the litigation work on behalf of the firm’s clients, whereas there is no lawyer-client relationship in railway...

Strangely it seems that the TPE mobile website doesn’t offer reservations for services which the desktop site will book.

It may be that the conviction does not ever show on a DBS check. Whether it shows or not does not change any contractual obligation you may have agreed to to inform your employer if you are charged with or convicted of a crime - only you can know whether you agreed to that, by looking at your...

I know that it’s implied in the various responses here, but in case it helps to understand the position train companies take and will take in this case unless it is clear to them that the passenger’s disability is such that it would be appropriate to cancel the penalty fare: the correct thing to...

Do you have experience of this working? My understanding is that a magistrate is entitled to accept an indication of a guilty plea made on a Single Justice Procedure Notice, and therefore convict the defendant, before then reading or hearing mitigation as to the sentence that should be...

The OP there doesn’t seem to say what they’ve been offered, just what an acquaintance says they’ve been offered in similar (maybe) circumstances. It does seem that the OP had a particularly difficult case, where more than one thing went wrong. From their posts it could be both the wrongful use...

A Penalty Fare is an on-the-spot demand to pay a statutory fare, which the person it is issued to can do immediately or within 21 days. Issuing a Penalty Fare is at the discretion of the railway agent, and not all railway staff are qualified and empowered to issue Penalty Fares. Railway...

Are there journeys in Wales that can't be issued on e-ticket, only m-ticket and credit-card sized ticket? Why?

This was a case where court proceedings had been initiated though, with time to respond to the SJPN running out. Engaging professional support in navigating the situation was more pressing here than it usually is.

It's worth clarifying, so that everyone is entirely certain: were the October and November incidents dealt with by revenue protection staff issuing formal Penalty Fares, as an on-the-spot demand to pay a defined penalty then or shortly afterwards? And these were appealed to the train company's...

The difficulty is that they know that you committed a crime. They have choices about how to deal with that and while they usually want to do that without prosecuting someone, they are perfectly entitled to go straight to a prosecution for the crime which they know you committed. It is...