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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: Neil B
Date: March 24, 2026, 2:26 pm
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> Yes I will get the wife to do it tonight.
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Online of course.
There are many advantages to that.
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: March 24, 2026, 7:07 pm
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All done, got wife to register the appeal now. Put me down as
representative.
Does the reasonable adjustment for disabilities extend to
representatives as well? Or only for the main appealant?
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: April 2, 2026, 11:43 am
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I got a hearing date now. Sometime in September. Need to find
the exact date and stick it in my calendar.
Now I am going to have a nagging feeling for months now.
What are my next steps? Prepare my case?
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: Grant Urismo
Date: April 3, 2026, 7:09 am
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Wait for the Council to upload their evidence pack. Quite often
Councils will weigh up the chances of winning against the effort
required to produce an evidence pack and decide not to contest
your appeal.
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: April 25, 2026, 2:32 am
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The council have, surprisingly, uploaded an evidence pack.
It's like a 100 pages long. Seems mostly to be their policy.
What should my next steps be?
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: John U.K.
Date: April 25, 2026, 2:45 am
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> The council have, surprisingly, uploaded an evidence pack.
> It's like a 100 pages long. Seems mostly to be their policy.
> What should my next steps be?
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Please to give us the date of the hearing. I take it you opted
for personal (videolink or telephone)?
In the evidence pack there should be a list of contents and also
a 2-3 page summary as to why the council think the appeal should
be rejected. Please post these here and the experts here will
advise what else they need to see.
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: April 25, 2026, 2:53 am
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Hi John.
"The hearing of your appeal will take place using the Microsoft
Teams video conferencing platform on:
24th September 2026 at 16:00."
That's from the Tribunal.
EDIT:
I've pasted the summary, and screenshot of table of contents in
the two posts below.
Thanks again!
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: April 25, 2026, 2:55 am
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Below is a copy and paste of the summary:
(the appellant) has challenged the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN)
on the grounds that there has been a procedural impropriety and
that the penalty exceeded the amount applicable.
The PCN was correctly issued under contravention code 19, which
attracts a standard charge of £110.00. This was stated in both
the PCN (evidence C) and the Notice of Rejection (evidence E).
Therefore, the enforcement authority does not accept that the
penalty exceeded the amount applicable in the circumstances of
the case.
The enforcement authority’s case is that evidence submitted by
civil enforcement officer (CEO) IS2025 demonstrates that the
appellant’s vehicle, LK56CSZ, was parked in a permit holders bay
with an invalid permit on 18 September 2025. The contravention
occurred in Brewery Road, N7 and the CEO issued the PCN at
09:51am.
The CEO’s photographs (evidence C) show that the vehicle was
parked in a resident permit holders bay. The CEO noted that the
vehicle had a resident permit which had expired on 12 September
2025. I can confirm that a valid Traffic Management Order (TMO)
is held for this location (evidence B).
The appellant believes that a procedural impropriety has
occurred as their representation has not been fully considered.
In their representation, the appellant made an appeal on the
grounds that they had attempted to renew the permit prior to its
expiry and were unable to do so due to technical issues. They
state that they then forgot about the renewal which led to this
PCN being issued.
A new permit was indeed purchased on 19 September 2025 which
is after the PCN had been issued on 18 September 2025 (evidence
J). The enforcement authority maintains that it is the permit
holder’s responsibility to ensure they renew their permit in
good time to avoid a break in continuity.
Resident permits are electronic and can be renewed
electronically.
The appellant states that they were prevented from purchasing a
permit in the first instance due to the council’s online system
repeatedly failing to process the renewal. The enforcement
authority is unaware of any system issues that would have
impacted the appellant renewing their permit.
However, if the appellant was prevented from purchasing a new
permit then we would expect the appellant to get in touch with
the enforcement authority and to try to find another method of
renewing their permit. The appellant admits in their appeal that
they forgot to renew their permit. The
appellant’s appeal amounts to mitigation which has already been
considered at the representation stage. The enforcement
authority is not satisfied that there are any grants cancel this
PCN.
A procedural impropriety is a failure by the enforcement
authority to observe any requirement imposed upon it by the
Traffic Management Act 2004, the Civil Enforcement of Parking
Contraventions (England) Representations and Appeals Regulations
2007 and the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions
(England) General Regulations 2007 in relation to the imposition
or recovery of a penalty charge or other sum. There is no
evidence of procedural impropriety by the enforcement authority.
The enforcement authority has considered whether there are any
circumstances to mitigate the contravention and have decided
there are not. I find no compelling reason to cancel the PCN and
I therefore request that the adjudicator refuses the appeal. If
the appeal is refused, Islington Council would seek to recover
the full charge of £110.
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Re: Does this mean I cannot take it to tribunal?
DIR By: ReflectoR
Date: April 25, 2026, 3:01 am
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