There isn't any such offence as fare evasion. You will have been charged with something specific (e.g. 'On (date) entered a train to travel without a valid ticket.') - have a look and let us know.
Whilst you are right that a Summons alleging the offence uses the correct phrase from the Regulation of Railways Act [1889] i.e: 'did travel on a Railway without having previously paid his fare and with intent to avoid payment thereof..', I think we can understand widespread use of the term 'Fare Evasion' as a description of the offence, because it is the term that MoJ use themselves quite often. See the link below from the latest Sentencing Council guidelines.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.u...sed-2017/3-railway-fare-evasion-revison-2017/
this is my first mg11 ive had fines in the past but kept to the payment ,also i did offer twice the single fare plus 120 pounds compensation plus 125 court and willing to bring the full amount money in cash to the court date
I assume that this comment includes possible further confusion regarding use of specific terms.
Where the OP says
'i've had fines in the past but kept to the payment' I am assuming that he means he has previously had Penalty Fare Notices, which he has paid, because he also says
'This is my first MG11'.
Perhaps the OP can clarify, have you previously been fined by a Court for railway ticketing offences?
If not, the payments that you refer to as 'fines' are in fact not fines, but are civil settlements and do not count as previously convicted offences so far as a Court is concerned.
If in fact you have been summonsed to a previous Court hearing for a ticket related offence then that's a different matter and it's important to be clear because it might have a bearing on any sentence in this case.
it says i travel with a ticket and any form of money
it said Travelled on a train without having previously paid the fare and with intent to avoid payment
The important bits here are:
i) that you had not previously paid and didn't have a ticket
ii) that you did not have 'any form of money'
It has been ruled that the fare is due at the time of travel and not later
(Bremme [1964]) so, whether or not the facility to get a ticket was available before you got on the train, not having the means to pay confirms that the offence is made out.
A man cannot give what he does not have. You did travel on the train and did not have the means to pay the fare.
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