Newham Council should by now have worked out what went wrong with their system, as we have seen this problem a few times, and the council have probably seen it a few hundred times as only 1% of PCNs end up at the tribunal.
They should be assisting the adjudicator by providing full and frank details which they clearly aren't.
Reneging on a deal, including one done by the computer which acts for the council, is cheating.
This is the same situation as occurred in cheat #9 Newham Council should not be blaming the motorist when they know from other cases that their system was at fault.
It is a blatant lie that the payer can choose the amount to pay. Mr Mustard tested the payment system with an old overdue PCN of a client and got the following answer:
Newham Council dropped a clanger and need to 'suck it up'.
The reader might think that Newham Council have cheated themselves in this type of case rather than be the cheat but they are 100% in control of the sum demanded. Paying on line gives the council complete control over the amount that can be paid, you cannot for example pay £110 on line if the PCN has advanced to the £165 stage, except by posting in a cheque and that won't stop the process whereas paying on line usually does.
This is not the only case in which £1 has appeared. In another case, which might appear later, Newham Council denied that it was possible for their system to demand the incorrect sum but of course sensible motorists have taken screen shots of the error and the usual band of experts knew of the glitch.
What was cheating was to object to the settlement that Newham Council had themselves offered, which had been accepted, and put the motorist through the tribunal system.
Another situation which Mr Mustard hasn't seen before despite fighting over 2,000 PCNs.
A random decision which Mr Mustard looked at on the tribunal decision register.
The end.
