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Originally Posted by martyh
Once it gets to court i agree that the burden of proof is on TVL but prior to that i would assume that it's up to the householder to show they don't need one .
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You are wrong. The householder doesn't need to prove they don't need one. They can slam the door on the TV inspector face if they want if the licence inspector has no proof. They have no legal right to enter your home and can only do so with your permission, no matter how scary they try and sound.
Only if they have
reasonable evidence a crime is being committed may they enter your home with a police officer present. This rarely happens.
Therefore one has to assume that the burden of proof is on them to show you are committing a crime rather than harass people based on a computer generated list that doesnt know if they watch tv or not.
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Originally Posted by martyh
There are a few on here who have swore blind that they don't need a licence and then gone onto post in another thread about a favourite BBC program
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You can watch BBC programmes without needing a licence. You just cannot watch them live or record them live in a household without a tv licence. Watching those programmes at someone else's house or on a catchup service is perfectly legal and you don't need a licence for that.
More and more people are time-shifting their tv or doing without it completely. They are not all criminals.
Even the so called criminals should not be called criminals for simply not paying a company who broadcasts a signal in to their house without permission. Criminals tend to be people who go out of their way to do wrong, rather than doing nothing.