Call Sign May 2011 - Page 15 - YOUR CCTV CAMERAS ARE ILLEGAL

In a brilliant victory over Westminster Council while acting for Dial-a-Cab driver James Field (W73), who received a PCN in November for stopping in Brewer Street, Barrie Segal showed that Westminster’s CCTV parking cameras were illegal! Now the council faces cancelling thousands of parking tickets and repaying £millions of illegally collected fines. Parking ticket expert, Barrie, founder of parking ticket website www.appealnow.com told Call Sign: "Westminster Council will have to cancel tens of thousands of CCTV issued parking tickets after my landmark ruling by the Parking Adjudicator. In my view they must now stop using these cameras immediately. Furthermore, the council also faces the prospect of repaying millions of pounds, which they collected using these illegal cameras." In two far reaching-decision for motorists, the Parking Adjudicator decided that Westminster Council’s CCTV parking cameras did not comply with the law. The challenge was mounted by Barrie – undoubtedly the UK’s leading parking ticket expert - who claimed that Westminster Council’s CCTV footage as individual frames were not numbered sequentially as required by law and therefore did not comply with that law. After considering further evidence from Westminster Council and Barrie Segal, Parking Adjudicator Carl Teper, decided in PATAS cases 211000697A and 2110013024 " ... that the	In another victory, DaC parking guru Barrie Segal tells Westminster Council… YOUR CCTV CAMERAS ARE ILLEGAL – AGAIN!
	*Westminster Council Parking Dept must hate the mention of Barrie Segals name!* failure to sequentially number the captured images by means of a visual counter, to be a procedural impropriety as so defined. In coming to this conclusion, I have accepted the argument advanced by Mr Segal in his written submissions, that the numbering of the visual counter is not sequentially numbered. The appeal is allowed." Barrie went on to say: "These decisions and the evidence I have seen in several other cases I am conducting, show that the CCTV cameras used by Westminster Council do not comply with the law and therefore paring tickets issued using them cannot be enforced. Westminster Council should stop using those cameras immediately and cancel all parking tickets issued as a result of their use. They should also refund all parking tickets paid by motorists who were caught by the cameras,	believing the cameras were legal." If Westminster is forced to switch them off again, it will make the second time in two years! Under paragraph 2(c) of the Schedule to The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (Approved Devices) (England) Order 2007, it states: "Each frame of all captured images is timed (in hours, minutes and seconds), dated and sequentially numbered automatically by means of a visual counter." In another landmark case in 2009, Barrie got Westminster’s Controlled Parking Zone "F" – covering virtually the whole of central London - declared illegal when he claimed the zone did not have the correct signs at each vehicle entry point. After a site inspection, the Parking Adjudicator agreed with Barrie. It’s a safe bet that Westminster Council do not like our Barrie! But it’s another safe bet that DaC drivers such as James Field believe if PCNs were an Olympic sport, Barrie Segal would undoubtedly win a gold medal! Barrie Segal deals with DaC’s arbitration appeals and has won virtually all of those he has been involved with. He is also the founder of www.appealnow.com - the only website in the world where you can appeal your parking ticket online in 4½ minutes…
Victoria Station upgrade The next phase of traffic management for the vital upgrades to Victoria Station starts on 3 May. This involves: * Closure of Wilton Road north of Neathouse Place to all traffic except buses and taxis and cycles * Closure of Allington Street at the junction with Victoria Street * Removal of the feeder taxi rank link in Neathouse Place Restrictions will apply in this area until the project is completed in 2018. Further bulletins and highway signage will be used to advise drivers of significant changes. Vehicles serving Allington Street should access the road from Buckingham Palace Road. A monitor at the head of the taxi rank in Vauxhall Bridge Road will show the back of the rank in Wilton Road. Taxi drivers should not proceed into Neathouse Place until they can see that there is room in Wilton Road. More information will be available on the Transport for London website at tfl.gov.uk/vsu.