The number of cases being heard at PATAS is still very heartening but there is always scope for upward movement. It surely can't be the case that out of the 3,000 parking tickets issued each week by Barnet Council only some 50 to 100 are bad enough to reach the independent adjudicator.
Parking tickets were cancelled for the following reasons:
- the motorist thought they had paid and the council failed to deal with the appeal properly,
- a motorist claimed not to have been parked but driving along Salisbury Rd,
- a former client of mine appeared in person and proved that the parking ticket was not handed to them,
- no proof that the car was actually next to the dropped kerb
- the yellow lines in West Heath Drive were too faded,
- dishonesty was alleged in a case where service of the parking ticket was said to have been handed to the driver
- the car was actually in the shop's own service road and not on the highway
In the following week Barnet Council do better than the motorist for the first time in the last year. Is it a flash in the pan, I will explain the reasons why people lost their appeals.
Keep on appealing
Miss Feezance
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