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'Telegraph Reader': "It's those that are looking to avoid paying that have convoluted split ticket mixes." Looks like a fair basis on which to assess the value of that individual's contribution.

I apologise for having inadvertently and wrongly cast doubt on the legitimacy of the CM's intervention in the Ballington case. The six defendants concerned were the subject of proceedings that had yet to be brought to a conclusion, and I have no reason to think there was any irregularity in the...

I have the following observations on the uploaded judgment handed down by the Chief Magistrate. First, the proceedings appear to have no greater procedural legitimacy than those in the Ballington case dealing with unauthorised employment of the Single Justice Procedure. The absence of any...

I too have obtained a copy of the Chief Magistrate's judgment. Whilst I cannot see how objection could be raised to publication of what is, after all, a judicial decision on a matter of public interest, I'm grateful to @KirkstallOne for taking the courteous course of seeking permission for its...

Well, the imminent demise of the PSTN also supplies an inducement to reconsider (reluctantly) the suitability of my ancient mobile! Replacement of our landline with something more up-to-date might also help us escape the blizzard of scam calls.

Almost all my interactions with train crew have been positive, so yes, perhaps I was unduly pessimistic about securing staff agreement to a re-routing via Taunton on my outbound journey. That said, as someone who has found no compelling need to update his 20 year old mobile phone technology, I...

Thanks, @Haywain. Yes, I agree that speaking to the operator must be the appropriate and prudent course, but it's not hard to foresee problems arising notwithstanding an ostensible readiness on the operator's part to assist. Taken at their face value, my chain of tickets via Bristol were...

For my future guidance I'd appreciate clarification of my available options for dealing with disruption. It's my usual practice to to attend an event occuring annually in May at Bracknell (BCE). To this end I had purchased rickets for my journey there today from Highbridge (HIG), returning same...

Quite so, but a defence of the way in which the industry has chosen to present the contractual terms to which its passengers will be subject cannot disregard its decision to include in that presentation a commentary upon those terms' meaning. The expressed purpose of that commentary is "to help...

All the more reason not to cloud the issue by inserting explanations that actively mislead. The rail industry has chosen to put its own gloss on the terms of the contract by including these 'explanations'. It cannot expect a passenger to 'unsee' them where they are apt to mislead. If the...

Indeed the second paragraph of the the note does accurately reflect the effect of Condition 14.2, but by that stage the damage has already been done by the first. Where you have two 'explanatory' paragraphs that contradict each other, which are you supposed to believe?

For clarity, Condition 14.2 in the current edition of NRCoT is in terms as follows: Unless Condition 14.1 applies, you may use a combination of two or more Tickets to make a journey provided that the train services you use Call at the station(s) where you change from one Ticket to another...

I am puzzled by what has taken place in the OP's case. The uploaded email extract headed 'Claim details' does not appear to be a claim form within the meaning of the Civil Procedure Rules. I may have fallen out of touch regarding commencement of civil proceedings, but, so far as I can see from...

If the OP is willing to upload copies, appropriately edited to conceal personal identifying information, I should be interested to read Transport Focus' conclusions and the correspondence between EMR and Transport Focus. In its FAQs about how it deals with passengers' complaints Transport Focus...

Glad to see this had been resolved sensibly.

@Manda78, at this stage all you need to do is complete the form headed “To be returned to the court” by marking the box headed “Plead not guilty / Send me the date of my trial”, and, on the form headed “Not Guilty Plea”, complete the box headed “I am pleading not guilty because:” with the...

Whatever way you choose to return the 'Not Guilty' plea, you should ensure that it reaches the Warrington Combined Court offices by Friday 11 April at the latest. Strictly speaking you should have an additional two business days' grace for return of the plea, but treating 11 April as your...

I suggest you send these papers to Northern Trains DRPU (though some of them it will already have): You should indeed send your Not Guilty Plea form to the court endorsed with the reason you have given: I suggest you supplement that by putting the following into the same box on that form...

There is a problem with the words “The only restrictions on this bar are detailed in regulation 11.3(a) and 11.3(b) which I reproduce in full” in @KirkstallOne's draft. The general rule is that a railway operator can cancel a penalty fare at any time and instead prosecute the passenger...

In an appropriate case I'm certainly not averse to offering terms of settlement that will provide an opponent with a 'golden bridge' to an off-ramp (suitable mix of metaphors?), and I'm aware that 'outstanding fare only' formed the basis on which your own case was settled. And yes, such terms...