Andrew asks a very good question in the comments on my High Court madness post.
"why does it matter that she is a baroness? Would it be okay if a nurse evaded a fine in the same way?"
Well, I don't think that a nurse should evade a fine, even if she was one of my members, but that question did touch on why the case bothered me. The fact is that the nurse wouldn't be able to evade the fine like the baroness did. Now, I don't know the full ins and outs of how the case proceeded, but I do know that applying for a High Court judicial review doesn't come cheap. The nurse would have cursed her luck and paid up, the baroness can use her wealth and contacts to force TfL into quashing her fine.
It's simply not fair that there's not an equal access to justice.
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