HEXUS.net Forums - Data Protection and TV Licenses some interesting stuff here. Detector Vans are nonsense apparently. "4. There are a number of very high profile court cases ongoing at the moment, and should any of them win, the TV license will be declared illegal and incompatible with human rights laws. The cases I'm aware of are Jonathan Miller (millionaire sunday times columnist), the "Liverpool Six", Jim Marmot (this guy spent 10 years of his life researching law for the purposes of abolishing the TV license!!!), and some Russian guy."