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Drivers should pay up even if they go to court and win say ministers.
Drivers who challenge motoring prosecutions should be made to pay their legal bills even if they win their case, ministers have said. The proposal would see successful defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their costs.
A change in the law would affect many of the 1.7million drivers a year who take their cases to court. Ministers are proposing that defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their legal costs.
It costs around £1,500 to fight charges of speeding, illegal parking and other motoring offences and this cost would not be fully reimbursed even if a driver was found innocent of all charges.
Peter Roberts CEO of the Drivers' Alliance said "it is fundamentally wrong for the state to financially penalise innocent drivers who are simply seeking justice against a faulty conviction".
Jeanette Miller, of Geoffrey Miller, a leading motoring law firm has raised a petition on the Downing Street website and the Drivers' Alliance urges everyone to sign it. If the principle of innocent until proven guilty is to be upheld in this country then it is imperative people who win a court case are not financially disadvantaged for defending themselves.
You can sign the petition at: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CostsRecovery/
Drivers who challenge motoring prosecutions should be made to pay their legal bills even if they win their case, ministers have said. The proposal would see successful defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their costs.
A change in the law would affect many of the 1.7million drivers a year who take their cases to court. Ministers are proposing that defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their legal costs.
It costs around £1,500 to fight charges of speeding, illegal parking and other motoring offences and this cost would not be fully reimbursed even if a driver was found innocent of all charges.
Peter Roberts CEO of the Drivers' Alliance said "it is fundamentally wrong for the state to financially penalise innocent drivers who are simply seeking justice against a faulty conviction".
Jeanette Miller, of Geoffrey Miller, a leading motoring law firm has raised a petition on the Downing Street website and the Drivers' Alliance urges everyone to sign it. If the principle of innocent until proven guilty is to be upheld in this country then it is imperative people who win a court case are not financially disadvantaged for defending themselves.
You can sign the petition at: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CostsRecovery/
Desperate measures for desperate times. The motorist fighting back is causing quite a stir when the Judiciary are beginning to realise that cameras in the back of vans are not an accurate measure of speed admitted, by the British Director of the cameras manufacturer a, certain Mr. Garrett who openly admits in the courtroom that the device used a Speedscope Lasertech LTi 20-20 gets it wrong 40% of its use and operator error can add to an increase of errors.
The CPS was not happy when I won an appeal case in Newport Crown Court last Friday. His honour openly laughed at her costs
The CPS was not happy when I won an appeal case in Newport Crown Court last Friday. His honour openly laughed at her costs
LuS1fer said:
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The CPS was not happy when I won an appeal case in Newport Crown Court last Friday. His honour openly laughed at her costs
What happened?
I appealed to the authority issuing the ticket and heard no more. The long and short of it all was that the authority took the matter to court and a hearing was carried out without my knowledge therefore, I did not have the opportunity to state my case.
It turned out the they found me guilty and stacked up the costs. The first I heard was when I received a communication demanding the money or else. Luckily it was within twenty eight days so I appealed and won. The judge was a reasonable chap with a lot of common sence calling the authority draconic and the like.
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