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       Costs incurred.
   DIR By: guest303
       Date: August 1, 2023, 10:03 am
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       Can a member of the public that appeals and 'wins' civil penalty
       charge notices etc claim reasonable personal costs ie time spent
       investigating/writing out appeal etc, I'm pretty sure that years
       a go members of the public could charge £17.50 per hour for
       their time.
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       Re: Costs incurred.
   DIR By: guest179
       Date: August 1, 2023, 10:58 am
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       Costs
       13.—(1) An adjudicator must not normally make an order awarding
       costs and expenses.
       (2) But, subject to sub-paragraph (3), an adjudicator may make
       an order awarding costs and expenses—
       (a)against a party (including an appellant who has withdrawn an
       appeal or an enforcement authority which has consented to an
       appeal being allowed), if the adjudicator considers that—
       (i)the party has acted frivolously or vexatiously, or
       (ii)the party’s conduct in making, pursuing or resisting an
       appeal was wholly unreasonable;
       (b)against an enforcement authority, where the adjudicator
       considers that the disputed decision was wholly unreasonable.
       (3) An order must not be made against a party unless that party
       has been given an opportunity to make representations against
       the making of the order.
       (4) An order must require the party against whom it is made to
       pay to the other party a specified sum in respect of the costs
       and expenses incurred by that other party in connection with the
       proceedings.
       So the answer to your question is yes, costs may be awarded. But
       these are exceptional. Do the facts of your case - the factual
       and procedural not just whether your appeal was allowed- meet
       the threshold test for costs?
       Post your case number(if London) and we can have a look.
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       Re: Costs incurred.
   DIR By: Pastmybest
       Date: August 1, 2023, 11:01 am
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       The normal rate now is £19 per hour but the bar for the awarding
       of costs is very high. The council would need to be either
       vexatious, frivolous or wholly unreasonable in the prosecution
       of the PCN and the amount claimed would also need be sensible.
       Beware that the council can also claim costs from you if you act
       in the above ways in defending the claim
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       Re: Costs incurred.
   DIR By: ivanleo
       Date: August 2, 2023, 12:59 pm
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       Do to
  HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pVrE76_RYY6bNmEpYGbsZkxtpfIeud_BT3SKfg7TzQM/edit#gid=642784037<br
       />and search for "costs", there's a number of decisions both
       from
       London Tribunals and from the Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
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