In message , Alang
writes
>On Sun, 04 May 2008 06:39:18 GMT, Mike_B
>wrote:
>
>>In message <683lb6F2qtbm1U1@mid.individual.net>, Ophelia
>> writes
>>>
>>>"Mike_B" wrote in message
>>>news:+z3b90tIlFHIFwXp@localhosts.net...
>>>> In message , Alang
>>>> writes
>>>>>On Sat, 03 May 2008 07:34:12 GMT, Mike_B
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's amazing how many people think, wrongly, that a FPN is a fine that
>>>>>>must be paid.
>>>>>
>>>>>That is exactly what it is unless you decide to challenge it in court
>>>>>just as you could with any other fine.
>>>>
>>>> No, this is exactly the misunderstanding that I was referring to. You
>>>> wouldn't be in court challenging any other fine, because the fine only
>>>> ever comes AFTER the court has found you guilty of something. All an FPN
>>>> is, is an offer to deal with an alleged offence by way of paying a
>>>> penalty. It is not a fine and if you don't wish to take up the offer, you
>>>> don't have to do anything at all and you certainly don't have to challenge
>>>> an FPN in court. If you choose not to take up the offer, the authorities
>>>> then need to decide whether to charge you with the offence that they are
>>>> alleging you carried out, and indeed whether they even have sufficient
>>>> evidence to do so. I surely can be alone if thinking that this is a far
>>>> cry from the FPN being a fine.
>>>
>>> This is true, and often, if they don't have a great deal of evidence, they
>>>will drop it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Quite so. An FPN, in a nutshell, is just a legalised way of the
>>council/safety camera partnership/whoever saying "We say you did
>>something wrong, but if you bung us £75 we wont charge you with it".
>
>
>In other words exactly like a fine except it is being levied by a
>council rather than a court.
>
No, not a fine at all in any way shape or form as explained above.
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