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Case Details
Case reference 225000538A
Appellant Andrew Robert Dragoni-Long
Authority Transport for London
VRM BT70ZYM
PCN Details
PCN GX17347406
Contravention date 30 Jul 2024
Contravention time 18:03:00
Contravention location WEST HILL SW18 / FIRE STATION
Penalty amount GBP 160.00
Contravention Entering and stopping in a box junction
Referral date -
Decision Date 05 Mar 2025
Adjudicator Andrew Harman
Appeal decision Appeal allowed
Direction
cancel the Penalty Charge Notice.
Reasons
The appellant appeared before me today at Chancery Exchange.
The enforcement authority, TfL, did not attend the hearing it not being expected to do so.
The contravention alleged in these proceedings was that this vehicle entered and stopped in a box junction when prohibited.
The enforcement authority is in my view under a duty to provide or make available all of its evidence to an appellant, in an accessible form, in good time for the hearing, in order that they might prepare their case in response.
The appellant said, and I accepted, that he had been unable to view the footage.
He said that although the authority had sent him a dvd of it he could not play that dvd because he did not have a dvd player.
Very few people these days do.
All enforcement authorities in London, apart from TfL, provide online access to video footage.
In the absence of this essential evidence in the case not being accessible to the appellant prior to the hearing I was satisfied that he was potentially prejudiced in the conduct of his appeal.
It was, accordingly, allowed.
