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The driver of the vehicle paid for the parking ticket using the RingGo app, but unfortunately selected the incorrect vehicle registration when making the payment. The parking fee was still paid in full, which makes this penalty extremely unfair and disproportionate.

Given that payment was made for the parking session, I would like to know whether there is any way to contest this notice, as it appears to be an honest mistake rather than an attempt to avoid payment.
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So how incorrect was the entered reg number ? You can argue on 'O' and '0' (zero), because the official font for number plates has no zero character, the letter O is used. If it was for a totally different registration, then it is mitigation, I'm afraid, despite full payment being made. London councils and TfL between them are collecting well over £600 million a year from PCN penalties. So they're not going to stop the money rolling in.

It is for another car, the number plates are very similar though.  Is there any mistake in the PCN that can be exploited ?  The payment was paid, but another car was selected by mistake in the Ringo app.

There may be an error in the PCN or on the Redbridge website relate to payments for PCNs, but we await your PCN post on a different hosting site. 'Hippocrates' is good on this aspect, so hopefully he will post soon.

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Fewer councils now offer first time discretion for pay by phone errors and Redbridge has become a hardliner.

What they'll say is payment must be made for the correct VRM according to their traffic order.

However, some adjudicators take the view that the contravention parked without paying did not occur and instead Redbridge should have issued a parked without a valid session.

This is compounded by the council receiving full payment anyway.

Authorities also have a duty to act fairly but this is routinely ignored and is not a ground the tribunal can consider.

But a lot of cases we see in Redbridge are errors in the first hour, when parking is free - then the notion you can pay for something free is ridiculed by some adjudicators. In your case you paid for the second hour so if the council does not use discretion you are likely to lose.