Here is a recent independent adjudicator decision from London Tribunals. The adjudicator has to decide whether or not a contravention occurred, he cannot cancel because he believes the PCN is legal but ridiculously harsh (and Mr Mustard doesn't know what he did think, his hands were tied).
London Councils, the umbrella body for councils in London, has issued a handbook for Civil Enforcement Officers (traffic wardens) which says this PCN should not have been issued. There is no enforcement of that handbook as London Councils have no legal powers to impose it.
This PCN was issued before Labour came to power in Barnet but the decision to contest the tribunal hearing was afterwards. Mr Mustard is going to bring this case to the attention of the councillor with responsibility for parking as a less harsh regime is necessary and fair. It is tickets like this which really set the public against a council.
The end.
Clearly the "new management" (Labour) love money and the PCN Magic Money Tree just like the old mob. There is an old saying "it doesn't matter who you vote for, the Government always get in". It seems this applies to local government as well.
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