JUDICIAL INCONSISTENCY.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 34, 12 February 1929, Page 4

JUDIC IAL INCONSISTENCY.

AT Till*: Stratford I’olico Court yesterday, a man was lined £1 a.ndl costs on a chart;© of driving a motor car in the. town in a dangerous manner. A service ear driver, for driving a car over a railway crossing when a train vyas aVpipmafching was .penalised tk< the extent of 30s with costs while another man for riding a motor cycle with the rear number plate missing was fined Aland costa Mr Moss who appeared for Uio latter, eiiteied

a strong protest, winch in view of the, other offences an<3 the penalties inflicted for them was justified. Wo do nob suggest that the latter offender should not have been fined, hut) to fine him a similar amount as a I man convicted of dangerous driving, and two thirds oT the amount impos-J ed upon a. service car driver who icrosseidl in front of a train even though the hitter was some distance away, is absurd, aiid snows an extra, (ordinary degree of inconsistency to say the least..