Recent content by Richardr

What's more, in the unlikely event of having a cheque book it will have a name and bank account details on it, and needs signing.

That's true, but relying on just one building can't possibly be acceptable for a public service. Say it was a bomb / explosion or such like that puts the building out of action either permanently or even for longer than a day. Can there really be zero resilience and the service be impossible to...

If someone has stolen £30 it is presumably also against the Theft Act 1968.

The game is a knock out final, so it wouldn't have been known who was in it until this week. Middlesex have said they will run coaches, and have asked for interest to determine how many.

There are plenty of arguments put forward, but perhaps the major one is that competition law doesn't apply to a company that does not have commercial autonomy separate from the government: This does show how this is definitely a non-issue post nationalization, the question in this part is how...

Good point, but maybe they could say it is precautionary just in case. Either way there has now almost been as much time since the first filing as there was between that and the issue arising [30 Sept 2015 per the claim].

Re Luton Airport Parkway, a couple of further issues are that quite a few people will be from overseas and there can be quirks in using non UK issued contactless cards, and secondly the issue that contactless will work to London, but not north to Bedford or further, making it confusing...

Does it not imply they thought that they would win and that the legal wrinkle didn't exist? As you say it wouldn't have taken much to change the law?

That site is working now [I'm just catching up on a few weeks of posts], but says the following in its update. Does anyone know the full meaning of decertification?

I was about to say the same. I used to commute pre-Covid to St Albans and got on at Blackfriars on the way home as it was the last stop where a seat could be guaranteed peaktime. Looking at the extreme of Bedford to Brighton or Gatwick doesn't capture what for most passengers is the benefit of...

Whilst I agree with you, this isn't going to happen [see also the electricity VAT cut which is designed to give the most benefit to those who don't "need" it]. The political idea is to try and reduce headline inflation, at least in the next 12 months or so, and thus using public expenditure to...

A lot will depend on how many and what type of changes the House of Lords make. There will be a third reading in the House of Lords following the committee stage and then it will go back to the House of Commons. It could go back and forth between the Houses if there are any disagreements over...

Plus of course reducing the strain on Kings Cross St Pancras underground station.

The other advantage of email of course is that you will have a written record of what they have asked and how you have replied.

and as soon as it is known that fare-dodging is taken on the chin, why would anyone buy a ticket, or the right ticket? What would GBR have done better in this case - Project Oval? The issues and trade-offs are the same.