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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: EssEss on January 28, 2026, 06:11:55 pm
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"Who was the driver on the day of the contravention is irrelevant. So if you hired the vehicle, you are responsible."
That's conclusive
Thank you.
S
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Please read this and update your thread accordingly so you get best advice: -
https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/read-this-first-before-posting-your-case!-this-section-is-for-council-tfl-dartme/
For decriminalised parking and traffic contraventions, the owner of the vehicle has legal responsibility for paying or appealing a PCN. The exception is when hiring a vehicle, provided the hire terms meet the legal requirements, the hire company, being owner get the 1st PCN, but can pass on the hirer details on the day of the alleged contravention. The 1st PCN is then cancelled and a new one served to the name and address provided by the hire company.
Who was the driver on the day of the contravention is irrelevant. So if you hired the vehicle, you are responsible.
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Does this PCN, that you can see but we can't, have a title?
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If your company hired the van I'd say the responsibility lies with you.
Is the company name on the PCN?
Why not just ask the freelancer to pay it?
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Back in December the Ltd. Co. I run paid for the hire of a van which was then driven by someone not our employee and working as a freelancer.
He was picked up on a camera driving wrong way down a one-way street.
(We paid the van hire Co. a fee for representing the PCN.)
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We have now received the actual penalty charge notice, made out in the drivers name but addressed to us at our business address.
Whilst we might be amenable to paying for someone's Parking charge notices I don't see how we can legally -even if we are inclined to do so- pay for his moving traffic offences.
I'm thinking that the van hire company, who record the details of the drivers license when the van is collected, should have given this information to the council issuing the PCN.