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There is always a guard on TFW go and knock on the back door and inform him that you need to pay an excess but do this before your at the station to which your ticket expires. . If he is unable to do so then take the guards name and purchase it at the first opportunity. Technically the offence...

Unfortunately there is a basis in law for taking details Travelling beyond the validity of a ticket Regulation of Railways Act 1889 Section 5.3(b) and offering to pay when challenged. This has been brought up on other threads recently the railways will look at it as had you not been stopped...

The first thing to do is do not panic. This is a charge under Byelaw 18 and is not recordable on the PNC. It states you were issued a penalty fares notice giving you 21 days to either pay the amount requested or to appeal the notice and it appears you have not done so. This may well have been as...

When considering costs it has to be properly costed assessment of the average amount of time and cost needed to properly process a typical case and should never be used as a punitive sum. You do not just have to consider a person’s time you have to look at all the other costs associated with...

They can still prosecute as they do for non payment of the penalty fare. In some circumstances payment has been refunded and and the notice has been cancelled in response to a complaint and a prosecution has been successful. It's the same with part payment only taken if they refund the...

Actually under the Criminal procedure rules 7.3.2 providing one offence is within the 6 months they can prosecute all the offences as it shows a system of avoidance of the correct railfares.

I would advise that she contact TIL in the first instance for clarification as they will then be able to show why it is so high. I suspect there's more to it and may be multiple journeys involved but who knows at this stage.

That's true but they could under section 11 and if the amount of loss is less than 1 k it could be dealt with by the Magistrates court.

They are able to use any previous incidents even those over several years under the Criminal Procedure Rules 7.3- (2) More than one incident of the commission of the offence may be included in the allegation if those incidents taken together amount to a course of conduct having regard to the...

Access to data from third parties is permitted for the prevention and prosecution of crime. I used to do this a lot in my old role some time back. Back then it used to be a section 29 application currently it’s the disclosure of personal data Under Schedule 2 Part 1 Paragraph 2 of the Data...

E Tickets should be in a pdf version not a screenshot, screenshots are normally sent from person to person in order to avoid the railfares and this passenger has clearly not read the information on the presenting of the ticket. etickets are emailed as a PDF attachment to you, meaning you’ll...