"I read somewhere recently of someone boasting that they had got away with it because they were using a dictaphone not a mobile".It was a comedic personality called Jimmy Carr. I suspect he paid far more to his smarty-pants lawyer for that smug defence than he would have done in paying a fine. His choice. Mine is to switch him off.
"Either he is a jerk or the law was badly drafted". I have my own opinion on this - try "both".
I wonder which lawyer the sainted
Harridan Harmful Harriet Harman will employ when she goes up before the beak for her second such offence?
'ave a guess, guv!

FLJ