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UPDATE: After many weeks of myself and the Assembly Member for my borough contacting TFL and asking them to withdraw the charges against me, I finally received all of their evidence against me. TFL's decision to prosecute me (rather than issue a penalty fine), was based on their "evidence" that...

I'm sharing with you all the statement that was given by the Revenue Protection Inspector. I have so many issues with the wording and what was actually recorded... "I am employed by London Overground as a Revenue Protection Inspector. Whilst inspecting tickets in uniform on Friday 17th August...

Thank you very much for your advice. I have amended the letters to AM and MP accordingly. I will send the TFL letter first but am honestly at a loss as to what to include in this letter. I think I'm going to have to get proper legal advice and will call around solictors offices on 2nd January.

Thank you for your input. I've contacted my friend who originally gave me the card and she has obtained proof that there was money on it at the time, and proof that TFL refunded her that money since the card was broken. Appreciate we are going round in circles, I am at a loss as to which...

Thank you for your advice. I've drafted the below letter to the Assembly Member who represents Hackney residents. I know it still looks quite long, but it fits on 1 page of A4 including space for my address and date at the top. I will attach it to an email and in the body of the email say that I...

I don't understand how that's admitting I was intending to avoid my fare? They're charging me with being in breach of a specific byelaw, but a clause in that byelaw says no one is in breach of this law if they are given permission by an authorised person, so therefor I wasn't in breach of the...

I never told them it was registered to someone else (because I didn't even realise it was at the time, I'd been using it for at least 8 months prior to this date and completely forgot it was one she had given me) Would it be reasonable to say that I had a valid ticket, in addition to this I...

Does anyone know for sure if it is standard TFL procedure to issue a penalty fare first before taking it to court? I'm trying to find out but going down a bit of a Google rabbit hole Because if it is then obviously they've not followed protocol by going straight for prosecution

Thank you for your feedback it's very much appreciated.

Prosecution dept*

UPDATE: a slightly condensed letter! Thank you all so much for your help on this - I have been advised to contact my MP/Sadiq Khan/any journalists I know as well, if anyone has any tips for that I'd really appreciate it Dear TFL customer prosecution, I'm writing in regards to case ****** in...

Unfortunately I don't think it would have, as they did not issue me a penalty fare they just went straight for prosecution :/ The very first letter that was sent was a Single Justice Procedure Notice stating I had been charged with this offence and I must respond to them with my plea : not...

Yes you're right, I definitely need to edit it! Will post an update soon, and good point re the "settling", I will change this to dropping the charges instead It was an oyster I was trying to travel with, and I'd put a monthly travel card on the oyster about 2 weeks before this date. As I...

UPDATE: (firstly, sorry for the slow reply, I haven't been getting email notifications, nothing in my spam folder either...) So the good news is my stat Dec form has been accepted and the case reset, south south magistrates court emailed me to say I will receive a new court summons in due...

This is reassuring... My understanding was that it might show up but only for a year? To be fair I haven't looked into it much

I'm so confused about the plea... there literally isn't a space on the form for me to include it? There is a small space to write about how i became aware of the case, and at the end it has a warning saying if you knowingly make a stat dec that is false in a material particular,then you are...

I don't really understand how i could have included a plea in my statutory declaration, since I never received the original SJN on which I would have ticked a box (literally, it's a tick box) to say guilty and want to go to court/guilty and don't want to go to court/not guilty and need to go to...

UPDATE: I've now received confirmation from the courts that they have received my Stat Dec form (waiting for them to confirm it was the one signed by myself, not the one filled in for me by SJS). The email stats the SD will be processed in due course, including a notification to the fines...

Thanks for your reply, that is encouraging. However I called the courts again this morning to confirm receipt and action of the form, they said that it was too soon to chase it up and that I would have to wait until they had reviewed the form and made a decision about whether to accept it before...

Hi, All I know is what they've told me: that I have been charged with being in a compulsory ticket area without a valid ticket under byelaw 17 (1) There is a byelaw which states a person will not be in breach of this byelaw if an authorised person opens the barrier for them, which is what...