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Our general advice is that it's important to engage with the process. In this case, as you have a slip asking you to send details of your Railcard, I would suggest you need to respond to that to say that you now realise you don't have one. Also explain that it was stolen with your purse (give...

Just correcting a typo: but also to express a little doubt about the wording. I am fully on board that it's not a great idea to try to tell the railway what to do - but 'I will pay whatever you think is reasonable' does feel rather like opening your wallet and saying 'help yourself'. But...

Unfortunately, you are in a weak position: your daughter is being offered alternatives to prosecution (a prosecution that the railway would most likely win) so the railway doesn't need to extend courtesies to you. Your daughter has two options: to pay up, or be taken to court. There is no third...

If you are going to do that, the railway will want to know that the family member is acting on your behalf. So before you go away, write (and sign) a brief letter saying this: all it needs to say is something like This letter is to confirm that I have authorised <name of family member> to act...

Practically speaking, the railway want to deal with this fairly quickly from their point of view, so they don't want mountains of documentation if they can avoid it. So when you respond, confirm what journeys you have evidence for, but don't send it in yet. If the railway want to see the...

It's a while since this was posted, so sorry if you've already moved on - but as you have worked out, you cannot specifically appeal against this £140. You are entitled to someone taking a second look at it - but the way to do that is by the railway prosecuting you for fare dodging (so you have...

Quite often, we don't get to hear the final outcome. Given the age of this thread, that could be because the final outcome isn't there yet - or it might be that the OP has resolved things and wants to move on from it. It's really useful if people can tell us how things ended up as that points...

Others may be along later with other advice, but I would expect a court to see this as you putting yourself in the wrong: you didn't find out about the prosecution because you gave false details. So if this is the case where your SD is late, then the court is unlikely to extend sympathy, and for...

I don't think anyone's come back on this - apologies if I'm treading on someone's toes. Given that you don't want to mention what happened the next day, I think that this is fine. But you need to bear in mind that the railway may put their records together and realise that there was also an...

For this, Uber are rather more generous than you imagine - you get your 10% on the full cost of the ticket including what you have paid for with Uber credits. So if I buy a ticket for £20, I get £2 in Uber credits: when I next buy the same ticket for £18 from my credit card plus £2 in Uber...

Welcome to the forum! Although it's not something you've said, please be assured that you won't be going to prison for this. The worst that can happen will be that Thameslink or the courts need you to pay some money to them. You've already made a note in your post to us of what went on today...

Trying to put myself into the shoes of the third appeal panel, I would prefer the whole argument to be presented anew. Otherwise it would feel like being asked to review the second appeal rather than doing a new job - which is hardly a way to get the third panel on your side. And you can't be...

Welcome to the forum! It would be really helpful if you could show us the paperwork that you have received: make sure you redact it so that we (and the whole internet) don't see your personal details. For the moment, one point that stands out is the question of the £1000 limit for the fine...

Really sorry if I suggested your son lied: while the practical upshot is the same (i.e. the case carries on) it's entirely possible that the inspector misheard or mistyped what your son said.

I think we may be rather at cross purposes (and apologies to OP for this digression): Merseyrail isn't too worried about how you obtain your ticket - but (for practical purposes) only paper tickets are valid. So a ticket to Kirkby must be a small orange piece of cardboard, as it is only served...

Kirkby now only has Merseyrail services as the Northern service to Manchester now starts at Headbolt Lane. So as Merseyrail doesn't do e-tickets, paper (i.e. ToD) will now be needed.

A wrong day (or date of birth) won't stop anything going ahead. There's a couple of reasons for this: - the practical one: if all you had to do to stop legal action was have the wrong name/date of birth, then no one would ever give the right details - everyone would say that they're called...

That sounds like a good plan. Explain that you are seeking a statutory declaration, and ask if they will stop pursuing the debt for the moment. They may agree to do so (n.b. for frequent readers and contributors - I don't know if they will hold off on collection - but it seems to me that asking...

Just a point - in the local dialect, the name of the main station in Liverpool reduces to 'Lime Street' rather than 'Lime'. Similarly, I would expect Headbolt Lane to remain as that rather than 'Headbolt': it's fairly standard in British English (including Scouse) for street names to retain the...

At the risk of drifting off topic, while that might be what the law says, it doesn't seem to be how appeal panels (even the third level panels) interpret it. A few months ago we did see a number of appeals upheld on other grounds when in practice 'incorrect wording' seemed to be the real...