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TFL and DVDs - their technology clock is ticking
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: March 6, 2025, 8:42 am
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Case yesterday.
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Case Details
Case reference
Appellant
Authority
VRM
PCN Details
PCN
Contravention date
Contravention time
Contravention location
Penalty amount
Contravention
Referral date
Decision Date
Adjudicator
Appeal decision
Direction
cancel the Penalty Charge Notice.
Reasons
The appellant appeared before me today at Chancery Exchange.
The enforcement authority, TfL, did not attend the hearing it
not being expected to do so.
The contravention alleged in these proceedings was that this
vehicle entered and stopped in a box junction when prohibited.
The enforcement authority is in my view under a duty to provide
or make available all of its evidence to an appellant, in an
accessible form, in good time for the hearing, in order that
they might prepare their case in response.
The appellant said, and I accepted, that he had been unable to
view the footage.
He said that although the authority had sent him a dvd of it he
could not play that dvd because he did not have a dvd player.
Very few people these days do.
All enforcement authorities in London, apart from TfL, provide
online access to video footage.
In the absence of this essential evidence in the case not being
accessible to the appellant prior to the hearing I was satisfied
that he was potentially prejudiced in the conduct of his appeal.
It was, accordingly, allowed.
#Post#: 61036--------------------------------------------------
Re: TFL and DVDs - their technology clock is ticking
DIR By: Korting
Date: March 6, 2025, 5:32 pm
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Very interesting.
Most if not all modern computers and laptops do not have a DVD
drive either, so if one does not have a DVD player one would not
be able to view the footage.
I think a lot of people might want to use that excuse for TFL
contraventions.
#Post#: 62324--------------------------------------------------
Re: TFL and DVDs - their technology clock is ticking
DIR By: speedfighter23
Date: March 13, 2025, 10:01 am
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Wow nice!
Yeah I had to ask a friend who had one to look at it, it's true
they should send a file of it
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Re: TFL and DVDs - their technology clock is ticking
DIR By: 3phase
Date: March 13, 2025, 12:10 pm
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Interesting case summary - thx
In this day and age it almost beggars belief that TFL are still
sending out DVD's - I thought authorities were supposed to be
cutting down on environmental waste and streamlining services -
how much extra effort does it take to burn a DVD from a file &
then post it out? Maybe they have 60,000 unused & unwritten RW
DVD's they have to get rid of? Who knows
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