TV Licence Harassment

DavidP24

tomtontom wrote: »

Official source please?

Nearly 4,000 prosecutions a week for not having a TV licence: Critics say 'draconian' crackdown is clogging up the courts

DavidP24

tomtontom wrote: »

Official source please?

As I said it is the non payment of fines

It does not make sense to charge people £1000 for not being able to afford £144

wealdroam

DavidP24 wrote: »

Nearly 4,000 prosecutions a week for not having a TV licence: Critics say 'draconian' crackdown is clogging up the courts

You seem to be quoting The Daily Mail.

Do you consider that an official source?

Not only that, the article is nearly a year old.

That makes your original post far more credible... thanks.

silverwhistle

DavidP24 wrote: »

I have a nice little collection of these now,

Really?

You know they make good firelighters: particularly good now it's barbecue season.:D

Yep, had all three numerous times and now they go straight to recycling without opening: not sure where I am on the cycle, to be honest..

tomtontom

DavidP24 wrote: »

Nearly 4,000 prosecutions a week for not having a TV licence: Critics say 'draconian' crackdown is clogging up the courts

Read what I quoted - what is your authority for the assertions you made (loads of people in prison, especially women, and that most of those imprisoned are on benefits)? Your article is not authoritative and gives no specific reference to those imprisoned.

Nilrem

DavidP24 wrote: »

Nearly 4,000 prosecutions a week for not having a TV licence: Critics say 'draconian' crackdown is clogging up the courts

IIRC there used to be a system which showed in much more detail how much time was spent on different types of offences in the courts (I think it did something like look at the number of cases of a particular sort, then the average time it took the court for those cases and gave each case type a rating showing how much time they took).

TVL cases tend to be done in batches with (usually) only a very small percentage of people actually turning up, so the cases tend to rely on the confession etc and as such are undisputed (in which case it can be done at something like one a minute).
So they can get through hundreds of cases of TVL cases in the time it takes them to do one fairly simple driving offence case.

So 100 TVL cases in terms of workload for the court might only be the equivalent to one shoplifting offence.

The old system for showing what sort of case load took up the courts time apparently showed that TVL cases took up a tiny fraction of the total court time despite the high number of cases, as they could be dealt with quickly and with no major complications or points of law to be argued

Statistics without context are utterly worthless.:)