Passagiere könnten eine Entschädigung erhalten, nachdem Northern Rail gegen die eigenen Regeln zur Fahrpreisumgehung verstoßen hatte

I wonder how much public money is being wasted each year on courts plus the delays caused for real cases?

We had the post office scandal. This could easily turn into another depending on how long it has gone for and what’s impact it has had on people.

I’m pretty certain council’s use of courts is a can of worms just waiting to be opened. My partner originally is from an eastern block country and he gets messages quite often from people in the local diaspora being threatened with fines for council tax.

One was paying council tax in their current house, both names on the bill. A friend of theres moved into a house they previously lived and noticed letters for them on the side. Turns out the council had gone to court for them not paying and it was a summons. They had notified the council about the move. The people who originally moved in after them didn’t pay and the landlord sent the wrong information. Luckily it caught in time.

Good. Northern are daylight robbers, always looking to catch you out on the slightest of technicalities as evidenced above. They will positively LEAP at the chance to grub any amount of extra coin off of their (often long-standing) customers, no matter the injustice of the situation they create.

Indeed, often it seems that the only thing standing in the way of their entrapments is their own abysmal organisation such that their trains have, once again, had to be cancelled or delayed. They are a disgrace, and I’m glad that a modicum of their pettiness is starting to see the light of day.