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How to Complain or make Representation.
Complaining to the Adjudicator.
Statutory Declarations
Miscellaneous
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Who are the Adjudicators?
For your case to be eligible for consideration by the adjudicators,
you must first make a representation to the local authority responsible
for issuing you the ticket. Only once you have received a Notice
of Rejection, can you then proceed to take your case to
the adjudicators.
Cases are decided by independent Adjudicators, each of whom are
qualified barristers or a solicitors directly appointed by the
Lord Chancellor. They decide each case impartially, applying the
law to the facts of the case. There are three separate Adjudication
services: they are:
PATAS (The Parking and Traffic Appeals
Service) are the Parking Adjudicators who consider appeals against
Penalty Charge Notices issued by all London local authorities.
PATAS also provides the administrative support to the Road User
Charging Adjudicators (RUCAT). In the year to March 2006, PATAS
received 52,764 appeals.
NPAS (National Parking Adjudication
Service) consider appeals against Penalty Charge Notices issued
by 139 local authorities in England and Wales
excluding London that operate decriminalised parking enforcement.
They consider appeals by motorists, and also by the vehicle owners
whose vehicles may have been issued with Penalty Charge Notices
(or have been removed or clamped).
NPAS have recently introduced a system where you may lodge your
Notice of Appeal online. This is currently a trial scheme in conjunction
with a small number of councils. For further details you will
need to refer to their web site.
RUCAT (The Road User Charging Adjudicators
Tribunal) considers appeals against congestion
charging penalties in London. RUCAT is independent from
London local authorities and Transport for London. For the year
ending March 2004, RUCAT received 42,339
appeals, but this figure has drastically reduced to 16,583
for the year ending March 2006. RUCAT consider that one of the
reasons for this could be that TfL are now charged a fee
of £28 for every appeal registered with RUCAT.
If you are considering taking a case to the Adjudicators, it is
advisable to visit their website, which is extremely informative.
In particular, each adjudicator features a Cases
Digest that outlines important cases which could be helpful
in identifying the grounds for your appeal.
All three adjudicators share the same web address which is:
www.parkingandtrafficappeals.gov.uk
The e-mail address for NPAS is: npas@parking-adjudication.gov.uk
The email address for PATAS is: someone@patas.gov.uk
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