Recent content by riordan

1768765566 No confusion. POFA now applies. A subtle change from ‘statutory’ land to ‘relevant’ land. Not always easy keeping up with legislation when it’s not reported in the legacy media, eh? 1768769270 Oh, I will. Matey has come up against private parking operators in the past and won on 2...

Thanks for the heads up. The parking ‘event’ took place before this date so all’s good. I checked the relevant land change to Dec 26.

Point me to where I told you that ‘no bylaw allegation has been made’. Section 14 is plastered all over the Notice to Keeper, presumably as an attempt to intimidate. Early days but as far as I can tell, SABA has no legal standing in this case. WMT does and as such should initiate any legal...

Well, the silly boy managed to miss the appeal deadline by one day. WMT is the landholder, not the landowner (Railtrack), and as such determines how the car park is managed.

Corrected. Contract law is contained within civil law. Schoolboy error, given I have no legal training. So, a parking contravention under bylaw is a criminal offence. Think about that for a moment: criminal, and prosecuted by a private company on behalf of a, er, private company. Be interesting...

A quick visit to moneysavingexpert forum and search ‘parking tickets’ should help. You parked on private land. Any claim against you will come under contract law whereas bylaw actions are pursued under civil law (think your local council). The distinction changed on Boxing Day last year but that...

The driver asked about the leave/re-enter ‘rule’ and in this instance it doesn’t exist. As for parking operators: their MO is precisely to catch the driver out. Their behaviour on private land over the past decade bears this out and is well-documented, which makes it all the more surprising...

….Or any other station car park managed by SABA through the use of ANPR. So, you’ve arranged to pick up a friend arriving on an inbound service at - say - midday. You won’t pay to park because the parking operator offers 20 minutes free parking, which is signposted as ‘short stay’. All is good...

Thanks for all the replies and apologies for not coming back earlier. After a cursory bit of research, it seems lnwr employment t and c’s re footplate in the early years are indeed difficult to pin down. There’s no definitive paper trail I can find. Records - where they existed - were rarely...

Evening everyone. Any help on the above?

I've been reliably informed that LM have agreed to enter into further talks re driver compliment (the no. of drivers realistically needed to provide LM's service level). these talks are scheduled to take place on - wait for it - april 13! there is a distinct lack of urgency on LM's part to...

absolute garbage. few LM drivers hit the upper tax threshold.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: LM is free to start negotiations to reclassify sundays as a normal working day. aslef has indicated its favour for such a move repeatedly over a no. of yrs - if you could take your face out of the daily mail for a few minutes you'd see why LM is...

this 'grateful' mindset is pretty much widespread. some of it is borne of actually believing the gov.'s mantra of 'we're all in this together' and that anyone who doesn't toe the line by taking a pay freeze, worse conditions, etc. is guilty of narrow self-interest. but there's also something...

for most TOC's sunday working remains optional - a condition that pre-dates the last war. this arrangement has,until recently,worked pretty well; it allows drivers to top-up earnings but also allows him/her to stay at home instead and sit down to a roast dinner with the family. until of late...