I have been watching these prosecution lists for the last few years and they have been puzzling.
They show almost no NG verdicts, yet the stories from aviation lawyers suggest that many cases are lost, or withdrawn on the steps of the Court. So I kind of expect the CAA to rigorously list only those which they win, but that is evidently not quite the case. Are they really so slick, with NG plea defendants, in bringing to Court only those where a convinction is virtually certain?
One remarkable feature of the last list is the # of CAS bust prosecutions. This is a new thing; previous lists did not show much in this caregory and mostly only big media profile TRA busts were prosecuted. I wonder how, out of the hundreds of major-league CAS busts each year, they choose who to go after? They were all G pleas so could not have been cases of "poor attitude", unless the poor attitude was only at the initial "interview".
The false logbook case is interesting IF the £10,000 fine is not a misprint. I wonder what he was doing. My guess (not being a lawyer) is that he lied his way into some nice position (737 RHS job perhaps??) by forging his logbook; merely writing up loads of nonexistent flights into one's private flying logbook should not interest the CAA all that much... The 1500hr ATPL requirement is an absolutely totally ripe area for logbook forgery because those hours can be built up flying almost anything anywhere that is bigger than a kite, and a lot of them will be all but impossible to verify years later. I used to have a BCPL instructor who claimed to have an ATPL but he never got anywhere with it - assuming it existed as a real document which I doubt.
The head of prosecutions at the CAA is Ian Weston; I guess one could write to him for an explanation of something?