£4500 fine for mobo driver

dancrane said:
To be honest, I was really hoping this thread would be about a case where a sea-going square-ended motor-boat had unthinkingly stirred up estuary moorings, and duly had his wallet emptied by the ancient, outraged magistrate (who might have been a local keelboat racer :D).

Bit disappointed to find that it's just a bit of fuss on the Thames, last year.

Although, if any ruddy little uniformed skunks in RIBs start telling us how fast we can and can't go in tidal waters, I'll flip-flop immediately.
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Know your waters then, many stretches of tidal water carry speed limits - and for good reason. I for one will have no sympathy for you if you come back on here winging about being fined.
 
Searush said:
I for one will have no sympathy for you if you come back on here winging about being fined.
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Good grief, why so contrary, SR? I don't have any engine at all, nor do I need or want one...and if people get fined because their motor-driven wake affects others, I'm glad...

...all I was saying, specifically regarding tidal waters, is that the fewer the laws (like speed limits) we're obliged to keep to, the better.
 
JumbleDuck said:
I wonder if a 29 year old of no fixed abode has any assets with which to pay?
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Me too - though it was, I thought, unemployed.
The costs might not be just lawyers fees but those of bringing the prosecution. (attendance by witnesses, finding the miscreant etc.)
Amazing how many lawyers are MPs - shouldn't they be barred due to conflict of interests.
 
birdseye said:
But before you say "good" is it really a £4500 fine as implied by YBW. No it isnt - its more a condemnation of our legal system.

He was fined £400 and ordered to pay costs of £3,515, compensation of £612 and a victim surcharge of £40, totalling £4,567. Which is another way of saying that lawyers creamed it whilst the reported damage quote " causing moored boats to lift, rock and violently roll from side to side, sending cabin contents crashing to the floor and ripping some vessels from their moorings." merited £612

Our justice system is no more than a gravy train for lawyers. It cannot be acceptable that costs are almost 10 times bigger than the fine.
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Roland Wilson, the Wafi who drove into the tanker at cowes, was ordered to pay a fine of £3,000, and costs of more than £100,000..................
 
Elessar said:
Roland Wilson, the Wafi who drove into the tanker at cowes, was ordered to pay a fine of £3,000, and costs of more than £100,000..................
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That's the bloke I was thinking of in post 18. I thought it was 'only' £30k but thinking back you're right. The costs business is the court's way of saying ' you wasted time and money, so you can pay something back towards others costs'.
 
He was a complete and utter pillock. I see he was of no fixed abode, I suspect the chances of the fine and costs actually being collected are pretty small.
 
sailorman said:
was he not backed by an other, in court. so he wasnt personally liable for any costs
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Really? i don't know.
He lost his job so it was quite a punishment whatever.

With him, on the face of it, his punishment was harsh. We wouldn't all want our mistake to be quite so public. But his big error was not putting his hands up and saying,"sorry i cocked up".
 
Elessar said:
Really? i don't know.
He lost his job so it was quite a punishment whatever.

With him, on the face of it, his punishment was harsh. We wouldn't all want our mistake to be quite so public. But his big error was not putting his hands up and saying,"sorry i cocked up".
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Humm, was it because he (skipper) did not understand that he was in the wrong, believing himself to be in the 'right' he went ahead with contesting the court case?
 
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