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I read this article in Compass magazine this month, so do we all get our money back then?
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The Bill of Rights of 1689 is the Law of the Land to this day. Clause 12 reads: "...that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void..." In other words, all fixed penalties imposed by local government and their agencies are illegal - and always have been - ANYONE BEING THREATENED WITH A FIXED PENALTY MUST BE CONVICTED OF AN OFFENCE IN A COURT OF LAW FIRST. (Compass magazine Feb. 2006)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't see any contradiction with current practice! With any fixed penalty you always have the right to go to court and defend yourself. Most people choose not to because not doing so allows the "defendant" to get a lower fine. A council for example can still slap a ticket on your car for parking illegally. If you are bang to rights, you pay the fine because going to court means you'll be found guilty anyway (unless you have a good defence) and have to pay alot more. The bill of rights doesn't say that the council can't apply parking regulations and the like. If you take the bill at face value evryone would have to appear in court.
The two answers above are correct but as Loosehead says in his question......
"Anyone been threatened with a fixed penalty"
This is what is wrong with the fixed penalty system!
Speed scameras have been proved to be unreliable but to go to court would cost at least �1500 in fees not to mention loss of earnings. Most people will prefer to pay the fixed penalty as the less costly option. the speed camera partnerships know this that is why they have such huge cash profits!
Toureman has an interesting point about the speed camera partnership. They are very reluctant to share information with the general public. For example it is extrememly difficult to get information such as camera calibration records, methods of calibration and camera positionong policy.
A few years ago I was snapped by a camera doing 88 in a 60. It was at about 4 in the morning on the A303 and the road opens out into a dual carrige way. It was a fair cop (I thought I'd been doing over a 100) but I asked the SCP to explain, if policy dictates that a camera is only placed in an accident black spot why, when there had been no accidents and certainly no deaths on that stretch of road, did they have a camera positioned there. They never bothered to reply, but a few months later, travelling the same stretch of road (under the speed limit this time) I noticed the camera had been removed. It's all the proof I needed to convince me that cameras are NOT there to improve road safety, but to generate revenue for the exchequer.
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