Speeding fine by text message

Eskimo and Legal Eagle you are both wrong. OK you can get Legal Aid if you are poor and the state is trying to frame you up for a Criminal Offence. For a tremendous number of cases however there is now no legal aid available. This is especially the case with accidents and injuries (civil matters) Nowadays the route is No-Win No-Fee. The problem is that solicitors like to cherry-pick cases where they know that they are onto a winner. In actual fact it is slightly more complicated than that as they take out insurance which pays the costs if they loose. If they can't get the insurance all the bets are off. A friend has been lasered in the eyes and now has a medical report about the white dots (scars) on his retinas. 18 months down the line he's still getting the run-around in the UK and Strasbourg seems to be off the menu. Third world country I call it.

Next time ask for the photos and the calibration certificate of the speed gun. Buy some photoblocker spray. Lots of people get scammed by faulty equipment or even police arm-pumping. These days any vehicle can be a speed trap, horseboxes, battered Transit vans etc. A common dodge is for them to park next to a garage or car sales lot where one little white van blends in with all the rest of the vehicles. A really nasty scam done recently involved an unmarked police motorcycle with video recording equipment. The officer was pursuing a speeding bike. Presumably the guy who was "winning" thought it was a race, no blue lights showing or anything. When the leading motorcycle visited a filling station the police waited in a lay-by until he came out again. More racing and more videoing with the police officer basically being an agent-provocateur - the motorcyclist could have easily been arrested at the filling station. The book was thrown at him with a 2 year ban but IMHO both motorcyclists should have been banned or slung in jail. Street racing by the police not showing blue lights or sirens is disgraceful - just look at their accident record. For an owned vehicle pursuit is totally unnecessary as the ticket can be sent through the post. Stolen vehicles are a different matter but often the THIEF who has been driving without insurance, and is speeding (60 in a 30 zone) plus running read lights, no driving licence etcetera is let off. This happened in Plymouth a year or two ago. Allegedly the judge said "Right, I'm now going to increase your three month suspended sentence to a six month suspended sentence" i.e. the "joyrider" was let off! By all accounts he had a good laugh as soon as he got outside the court. When decent people get fitted up £s£s£s for a couple of miles over the limit or a debatable tyre its not fair. Needless to say drug addict alcoholic joyriders never have any money so they cannot be used as cash-cows. Its the pits.

Wow what a great way to get free advertising, I got some cheap apples from www.tesco.com.

Its true - Texting and driving is one of the more dangerous pastimes.Having said that one of my friends got caught texting and driving and it went to court. Motoring Lawyer Direct http://www.motoringlawyerdirect.com/ reduced it to just a £30 fine.

I defended myself in Court and pleaded Not Guilty to an Aledged Speed fine and owing to my excellent driving record over 56 years the Magistrate handed down a Section 10 with No Conviction and No Costs.I asked what does that mean and he commented that it was just like it never happened.

Well 2 weeks later I found that I had lost 6 demerit points off my licence. NOTE: The Bill of Rights 1688, which is Constitutional Law in Australia, says "That grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of a particular person before conviction are illegal and void" ie: unless you have been judged by a jury and found guilty there is no conviction and the forfeiture is illegal.

Therefore how can the RTA get away with this illegal unreasonable practice. Answers Please.

simple solution - Don't text whilst driving, you flatulent , overweight, lager-swilling tw@t

Tsk Tsk Dave P..... ... What a great advert for the police service...... Thanks for simply confirming what we all knew... you lot just love to punish eh? Did you get picked on at school by any chance?. Then you'll be bleating in the pub about how the public don't like the force anymore (I hear this in my pub all the time)... just before you get in your cars and drive home... oooh guess thats ok though because you're trained drivers.

Dave P you are an arshole copper and I know I have to work with you idiots all the time, the only thing you muppets are good for these days is catching easy targets { Motorists ect} because crimials are to hard and costly to catch!!! oh yeah and they hate the paper work for real crims, much easier to send a fine with nearly 98% payment rate!!!

Never ever part with any private information about yourself or your affairs unnecessarily.

Never ever fill out the mobile telephone number field on an application form for anything. Your mobile telephone number should be considered ex-directory to the government or institutions managing matters like speeding fines.

Wizard - what you are suggesting is very risky. Your mate may not have recieved a second letter as a summons is being issued under S172 of the Road Traffic Act.

If it was one of my cases, that's what will have happened.

"The harder you make life for these b@$t@rd$ the less they will bother you." - Wrong. the more determined it makes me to stick you on for anything I can, now or in the future!

Eskimo, you are out of date.

You cannot get free lagal aid for everything now. Minor motoring offences have been withdrwawn from the scheme.

Hm, I'm afraid you've done something wrong if you thought you had to pay for a solicitor. In this country even the most guilty can get free representation at court - it's called legal aid. You just ask for it at the first hearing.