GreenShed wrote:
The prosecution don't and can't claim costs for an investigation. The investigation was completed and a prosecution brought.
The defendant then took further action and challenged the evidence. Any further response made by the crown to the technical defence are not considered necessary costs to be covered by the crown. The additional investigations are therefore claimed by the crown because they have been caused by the defendant. The defendant is able to carry out exactly the same tests as the crown did, after all he did have an Audi R8 at his disposal and Dr Clark (bless him) has laser speedometers at his disposal. So why didn't add Clark carry out the same test as the crown did when he saw the report of the expert for the crown? Maybe my answer can be considered cynical but it is in no way unreasonable. Is it because his results would be the same as those found by the crown? There are no reasons why his test would have been different so why didn't he perform the test? I'll leave that with you.
If you defend with unanswered speculation, don't be surprised if it is answered with a test of that speculation; it is after all perfectly reasonable to do so.
All this is saying to me - WE ,the SCP have decided you are guilty. We will spend whatever it takes to prove you wrong. and, yes, we will troll motoring sites to gather evidence , to ensure that in future anyone considering using their legal right under the UK legal system to defend them selves is made aware of how far we will go to prove our case. Money is no object to us. There is more chance in UK today of someone accused of murder getting a fair trail ,than a motorist charged/ condemned and sentenced under the SCP system .The idea is not to prove the workings of the UK legal system is fair, but to attempt to browbeat Joe Public into rolling over any time any speculative invoice arrives on his post mat, whether Joe is guilty /was there or was guilty of the crime, or even if all the signs etc conformed to those in the road signs handbook.
It smacks to me of a system so desperate to preserve their presence and the income stream that they will gamble any amount of money in an attempt to mount a show of force.
road safety -PAH- it's ALL about loss of face ,and more importantly keeping the income stream intact.