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    • Not at all.  The onus is on them to ensure that their invoice respects the provisions of Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 to establish keeper liability.  Which it can't as the area is covered by bye-laws. Spot on. Irrelevant as to whether you entered into a contract with VCS to pay them £100 if you didn't obey what was written on their silly signs. Who cares?  What about their ridiculous generic Particulars of Claim where they deliberately mix up driver and keeper. And where do they mention this?  You haven't shown us anything. Of course you have to prepare a Witness Statement and you'd better get on with it. This is the problem here - you've disappeared for months & months, haven't kept us updated and presumably haven't read other VCS threads.  That needs to change - now. Otherwise you will lose - simple as that. For a start - please upload the court order which fixes the hearing date plus plus where "VCS mentioned my initial defence was generic and clearly copied from the internet".  We're not mind readers.
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    • Hi,  It has been a long time but I have had confirmation claim will proceed to hearing in roughly 1 months time.  I was wondering if anyone could advise on defence please.  A few questions I have are: 1) I didn't notify VCS that I was not the driver of the vehicle and the judge may look negatively on this point.  I did not receive any direction in correspondence from VCS  that I should inform them if I was not the driver and that was going to be the foundation for may argument on this point. 2) The vehicle is stopped at a zebra crossing.  Based on the images from VCS for around 10 seconds.  At that time there is someone standing near the zebra crossing and someone else enters my vehicle.  I was going to raise the point that stopping at a zebra crossing when someone is standing near it is to be expected.  I was also going to ask the question how you can have a no stopping zone when there are zebra crossings where the driver is required to stop. 3) The no stopping zone is clearly signposted, however, no drop off or pickup is not clearly signposted with one small sign at the zebra crossing, parallel to the road and on the passengers side.  I was going to challenge that no-drop off or pickup is clearly signposted.  4) VCS mentioned my initial defence was generic and clearly copied from the internet.  It covered 1) Claimant not being in a position to state if the Defendant was the driver at the time.  2) No evidence that claimant's contract with landowner supersedes byelaws & signage isn't legally binding contract. 3) No contractual costs and interest cannot be accrued on speculative charge. I am interested to know if anyone has had success or been unsuccessful with this 'generic' defence. 5) If I should submit an updated defence to the court based on questions 1, 2 & 3.  Or if it is better to only raise these points in court? Thanks.  Any guidance would be appreciated  
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Dont need tourism .. or regulations ... like we don't need farming, or fishing,

... or foreign pickers ... because we don't need British farming

... or foreign lorry drivers or chlorine .. because we dont need regulations - there'll be no breach of health and safty regulations because we don't need those either

 

- ask johnson the ****** liar who keeps going abroad to foreign clean beaches ... at our expense

- but he'll probably just lie anyway

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Examples of the 'tory deregulation effects, and how the water companies shareholders and senior staff have benefited from gross mismanagement and literally pouring doodoo into our lives,

while paying shareholders 1 BILLION pounds in dividends in the last year alone.

 

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French transport minister Clement Beaune wants to limit the use of private jets. I agree with him, business owners and celebs are taking the mick while some of the same people preach to the rest of us about saving the planet.

 

Interesting about the French Twitter accounts that are using flight tracker websites to see how much rich French people are using their private jets.

 

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I really like this idea.

 

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Worth noting that:

 

A previous 'hottest UK temperature' was in August 1911

Forget the heatwaves of the 50's and 70's, This wasn't broken until August 1990

We know that the new hottest ever recorded (day and night) Uk temps were set just a short while ago (2022)

 

 

I predict that this latest hottest UK day record, extreme as it is, will be broken inside 3 years, even given that the gulf stream is slowing reducing the heat energy to the UK , and we will likely be more effected than most by dumping of cold polar air due to the accelerating breakdown of the 'polar barrier' - and not forgetting that more energy in the UK system generally means more clouds and wind - generally averaging day and night temps ...

(I actually doubt the record will last to this time next year - and it may even get 'tested again this year)

 

 

(and no, the updated stats on the projected current solar cycle duration and energy output aren't available yet - and what is available is very mixed - its still 'officially projected to be another extremely low output solar cycle)

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seems the water companies are 'potentially' looking at maybe 10's of millions in fines for their DECADES of criminal (IMO) failures and abuses

.. barely a dent in the £Billion quid dividends and boss bonuses they have handed out from profiteering failure in the last year alone.

 

 

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If the senior staff were simply fined - the companies hence the taxpayer would pay

It needs immediate claw back of all senior staff share options into the public purse, and ALL bonuses cancelled/clawed back.

 

Then criminal proceedings including MAJOR fines for the companies, cancelling of all dividends and senior staff bonuses until the companies have addressed the issues - including debt and infrastructure

(share price should only suffer relatively temporarily and share holders would then also be driving improvements)

 

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A warning of things to come .. think about the effects of the major world river systems drying up, and before that entering a decade of flood/drought sequences

 

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Lets just recall what they promised/lied

 

 

 

The reality is that they could have done it in the EU - and didn't

They now want to poison the atmosphere the very air we breath and water we drink with their bonfire of rights and regulations

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Brilliant news after all the sh** Napoleon has given us about time he had some back🤣

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This is a wind up, yes? Or are you willing to poison the fish stocks in the Channel and swimmers in southern England just to get back at the French?

 

Certainly looks that way

 

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Brilliant news after all the sh** Napoleon has given us about time he had some back🤣

 

 

Interesting that you are happy to use a persons tragedy, and a disgusting tragedy being inflicted on the UK to promote your ideology

 

I suppose you also think this is Ok as long as some of it reaches Europe?

Well the amount thats being poured into our waterways makes that likely.

Hope you like British shellfish - you deserve some.

 

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🤣wondered why the NHS has such a backlog 

Its full of lefties queuing up for their sense of humor bypass operation 

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So you think not being amused at some low-life using a persons tragedy, and water companies profiteering pouring rivers of doodoo into our waterways  and onto our beaches - is a lack of a sense of humor?

 

Back in your kennel (ho ho ho)

 

 

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Two promising initiatives here. The Environment Agency should be doing this but don't seem to have the resources.

 

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Determined fishers are testing their stretches of river for pollution as citizen scientists take on the water companies

 

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Shouldn't be needed we know

- but being as Truss (Now known as the Patron saint of doodoo in rivers and spouting it herself) removed all the monitoring  ... as a cost saving ... for the 'water' companies.

 

But this is all part of the populist return to 'the good old Dickensian days' eh?

 

Excrement flowing in the rivers and streets

Children going cold and hungry

Poor families evicted

Right to vote or protest being eroded

 

... While the 'elite' throw parties and make fortunes and do whatever they like under the protection of a corrupt police force.

 

Yep - think they've succeeded

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Unbelievable. No automatic warning if there's sewage in the sea.

 

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Map used to flag red all raw sewage releases into bathing waters – but firm now says it factors in ‘impact’

 

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reminder of just how long this has been going on, and what has Truss, The Patron Princess of Poop done?

Remove monitoring

 

 

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Company has been issued with a huge fine but those affected by its actions are finding it hard to celebrate

 

 

The fine was 1/10th what it should have been, and the principals should have been jailed.

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I think someone should get Truss on a live program, and go up to her with some 'Good British Whitstable Oysters caught fresh that morning' and see what see does when told to demonstrate her pride in populist ruled Britain by eating them.

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