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Car is in my wife's name, I deal with everything else.

She just drives it.

I intend to take it to tribunal, but on what grounds can I take it?

Thanks @John U.K.

Here is all sides of the NoR.

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Hi, I recieved a camera PCN from TfL on the 23/11/2025. I appealed, saying it was a clone plate, as I've had this issue for a while now. Today (28/02) I recieved a charge certificate, dated 18/02. I've shown a picture below. I googled, and it prompted me to check the history of the PCN on the TfL website. I've screenshotted that and shown it below as well.

My issue is, after submitting my initial appeal, I did not hear back from TfL at all. Not via email or post, and this is the first correspendance I have actually recieved from them.

Where do I stand on this matter?

Thank you for your help as usual.

EDIT: I of course did a bit of reading. The CC is in my wife's name. So does this mean she will have to make a statutory declaration?

And apparantley you have 14 days, not 28, before they take it further. Which is wholly unfair considering I recieved it 10 days late!

Would this draft do?

“I am the registered keeper of the vehicle. I authorise my husband, ReflectoR, to act as my representative in this appeal, including correspondence and attendance at the hearing.

I am resubmitting his original appeal with this submission

[Original appeal I will paste here]".

Thanks again everyone.

So technically my reps was rejected. But Islington are saying that I can't take it to tribunal because I'm not the owner.

Does this mean I wait for another NTO, and then get my wife to appeal that?

Or do I write back now, and say my wife wants to take it to tribunal?

What should my next steps be? Wait for another letter after the 8th?

Or write authorisation from my wife now?

Either way I wanted to take it to tribunal since it's 110 now anyway.

Hi everyone.

So I forgot to renew my permit with Islington, and I got a PCN. I appealed, and it got rejected, and I appealed again, and it got rejected again. They sent the NTO, and I sent the same appeal which got rejected as well.

My appeal was that I forgot, but the reason I had forgotten was because when I originally went to renew the Islington permit portal wasn't functioning correctly, can't remember exactly what was wrong, so I was going to try again later. But never did.

I know it's not the best excuse, but I'd like to take it to tribunal anyway. But the rejection to the formal representation seems to suggest I can't? I've pasted it below.

My original submission to the NTO

I would like to clarify the circumstances again, as my concern is that the mitigation I raised has not been fully considered. I attempted to renew my residents’ permit before the PCN was issued; however, the council’s online system repeatedly failed to process the renewal. This technical issue was outside my control, and I took reasonable steps to remain compliant. I urge the council to check its system logs, which should evidence my attempts to renew the permit. I have previously held a valid residents’ permit and had no intention of avoiding payment. I acted in good faith and attempted to renew on time, but was prevented from doing so due to system failure. In addition, I have ADHD, which means that despite making an initial attempt to resolve the issue, I am more prone to forgetting to retry immediately once a system error occurs. This makes it especially important that reasonable adjustments and fairness are applied where renewal was attempted but blocked by circumstances beyond my control. Given these facts, I believe it would be unreasonable and disproportionate to enforce a penalty for a situation caused by the council’s own system preventing renewal. I respectfully ask that this matter be reconsidered in light of fairness.


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