Not Guilty Mlud, but you have to pay costs

Channel Hopper

First up - Motoring Offences

'NOT GUILTY' MOTORISTS FACE COURT COSTS
Drivers acquitted of motoring charges will pay costs under new government scheme

_http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=20842


but where will it end ?

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

Tivù

Unbelievable.

How can it actually be Legal, of itself?

I feel sure one of those clever Barrister chaps will drive a Coach & Horses through it (Within the speed limit, of course).

Edit: Of course, quite a lot of Motoring Defendants have Legal Defence as part of their Insurance, so that'll bump up the cost of Insurance even further.

Oddly, I couldn't find reference to this point in the Linked Article - but I've just had a large plateful of Haggis and Neeps, so am somewhat distracted and might have missed it. Burp.

Tivù

Petition signed.

Twice (SWMBO is awake).

Topper

This sort of backward stance has been adopted by a number of government institutions including the tax man. I currently have an on going battle with the tax man regarding the small amount of redundancy I was paid last December after 13 years continuous employment with a company who had changed their name. When applying for a tax rebate I was slammed with a tax bill for 20% of the value of the redundancy money and told to prove it was a genuine redundancy payment.

%$**&^%£!£$^**

My keyboard doesn't do expletives


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also signed

War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left!

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whose six pack has turned into a keg

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rolfw

Typical, so it means that for the average man in the street, unless it is a licence losing conviction, it won't be worth fighting it, yet for the wealthy, nothing will change, as they can easily afford legal representation.

The mind boggles. Petition signed.

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PaulR

Unbelievable. What a shower of tw@ts.

Petition signed - and also my brother.

EDIT

If they're losing cases and having costs awarded against them then they should make sure that have better advice on what cases to prosecute!

Perhaps if a case falls then costs should be awarded against the faceless bureaucrats who made the decision to go ahead?

PaulR As I get older I find myself thinking about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.

2cvbloke

So, is there anything the government haven't got their grubby paws in then? Seems they're trying their best to get as much money out of people's pockets as always, how far can they go before we end up revolting against them?

And signed...

Robbo

Yep, signed too.

Loser should pay.

Analoguesat

Yeah Ive signed as well.

Up the revolution

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Channel Hopper

Spot on Foxy

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

satelliteman

Another money spinner, petition signed

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Vipersan

Absolutely disgusting behaviour..
Smacks of the govt enforcing yet another stealth tax to recoup losses incurred by greedy city types during the recent crash..
I don't even drive ...but I signed it anyway..
They should be first against the wall when the revolution comes..
VS

nanochickin

Nothing to worry about

They won't be in power for much longer

Signed also

compufunk

This proposal is just plain wrong on a number of levels. What happened to fair rules?

I dont live in the UK but still thought it worth signing. If this scheme worked in the UK, it would soon be introduced here.

trigger

Out here in Lanzarote a friend got a fine through the post for 90 Euro for not wearing a seatbelt. He asked about it and was given a date of the offence. Asking for further proof he was told a police officer saw him without a seatbelt and thats that no further proof needed. He was not stopped at all they just saw him!!!

Not a lot of point arguing with the idiots here as they will give you more grief, so he had to pay it.

futumsch

Unbelievable. So this gives the police permission to wave their RADAR guns that anything that moves, and even if the victim is innocent, the Police Farce is still quids in. Seems yet another money making scheme atop of their Speed trap cash boxes.