HOW TO AVOID COSTS IN COURT
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CWANSEA Stipendiary Magistrate has given a useful hint to defendants to summonses for breaches of road traffic regulations, particularly to summonses against coach and bus owners for failure to comply with the Road Traffic Acts.
The Stipendiary, referring to an application for witnesses' costs against a defendant who had pleaded guilty to failing to send in a quarterly return relating to a public servce vehicle, pointed out that these costs were heavy. He suggested that where the defendant intended to admit a breach, of regulations, these costs could be avoided by giving ample warning to the prosecuting authority of the plea, of " guilty." There was then no need for the authorities to send witnesses.
In the case in point, the Stipendiary, whilst allowing certain of the costs, imposed,no fine. The defendant pleaded illness as the reason for his offence,
An identical summons, at Aminart:-., ford Police Court, against a bus corn-,
pany which pleaded guilty with regret and an explanation of the delay, to failing to send in a quarterly return, instanced .the point of the Swansea Stipendiary's remarks. Whereas the Ammanford concern was fined 2as., the costs totalled over -four times the amount of the fine.
WHO SHOULD USE WORKMEN'S TICKETS ? "
AQUESTION as to whether workmen's tickets were intended for the use of " black-coated workers," was asked at a sitting of the Yorkshire traffic. Commissioners, at Leeds, when Leeds Corporation and the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., applied., for an extension of workmen's ticket,
facilities on a joint service. • ..
Opposing for the London and North; Eastern Railway Co., Mr. W.. R. Hodgson said that if the time limit for workmen's tickets were extended to 8.30 san., the " black-coated worker would be able to make use of them. '
Questioning Mr. H. H. Lancaster (of Leeds Transport Department),141r. Hodgson said: "Do you think that workmen's fares were designed to belie=
fit that kind of person? Don't s-yeili7 think they are designed for persons whni are really workmen?"
Mr. Lancaster said that the majority
of the persons:using thebuses .oidukt be workpeople Decision' was reserved