Scaffolder Noel Willcox has won a legal case arguing that London’s Low Emission Zone signs are not lawful, casting a shadow over the city’s controversial expansion of its Ultra Low Emission Zone. The Mail has the story.
Noel Willcox, 48, ran up fines of £11,500 for driving a company truck to and from a depot in Harefield, North West London.
Drivers at the wheel of highly polluting vans and HGVs must pay up to £300 a day under the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) or face huge penalties.
Mr. Willcox, from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, refused to pay and took his appeal to a tribunal, which ruled in his favour, saying Transport for London (TfL) signs for the LEZ were not “authorised and lawful”.
He told the Sun: “The Road Traffic Act states if there is a risk that motorists are going to be charged, you have to let them know.
“But the low emission zone signs just say ‘Lez’ or ‘Ulez Zone’. They don’t make it clear about charges.”
His triumph is not binding in other courts but could be referred to in other cases, according to Nick Freeman, the motoring lawyer known as ‘Mr. Loophole’.
TfL insisted the signs were deemed lawful by the Department of Transport more than a decade ago and said it is investigating why certain evidence was not submitted. …
It was reported over the weekend that desperate motorists are offering people living along a ‘charge-free corridor’ as much as £100 a month to park on their driveways.
Worth reading in full.
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They must be thick if they believe that a government department is the arbiter of laws rather than the courts.
Very, very good point. Montesquieu must be turning in his grave…
The scheme itself won’t be derailed by a loophole, it needs political will to scrap these charges altogether and none of the main political parties have the will.
Or to make them unworkable, by equipment being put out of action and mass refusal to pay charges and fines… £200 000 unpaid.
And if cases of non-payment of fine go to Jury trials, it seems likely Jury nullification will play and important part – as it should.
With Starmer committed to ULEZ charging, a sure fire vote winner is staring Sunak right in the kisser. What are the odds he’ll do bu55er all?
100%
He’ll do what he’s been doing all this time which is talk out of both sides of his mouth.
The job of national leaders isn’t to represent the people. The job is to pacify them.
In the UK we have two options. Someone who supports the global agenda and admits it or someone who supports the global agenda but pretends he doesnt want to.
A the next election we’ll be able to chose which of those two options we prefer
No simply vote Reform.
No candidate here. But tyranny is popular anyway.
Well done that man.
Obviously this is a slight set-back for the Khant and Fishy but it does show that some parts of the legal system are still valid – for the time being. I’m sure Fishy will resolve this matter promptly.
A scaffolder has fines of £11.500 imposed on him by a left wing Mayor? I thought it was only the right wing ruling aristocracy that punished the working folk?
Musulman Jihadi Mayor. Scaffolder is an Infidel. Jizya applies.
Common Law relies very much on precedent, so a decision in one could be used in evidence in another, or grounds for appeal to a higher Court.
Talking of low emissions zones just look at this pathetic little science missy trying to make a net zero name for herself!
Words are hard to find!
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/firelighters-pose-massive-risk-to-climate-and-health-irish-scientists-discover/a2022230338.html
There is no correlation, in the geological long term or indeed, in the era of Climate Hysteria, between CO2 and temperature.
Except in the models…
For anyone who doesn’t know this is C40 – chairman Sadiq Khan. A global network of WEF grown mayor’s. These are their plans for us for 2030. Spread far and wide to all friends and family.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/c40s-dystopian-future/
So when your electronic device (say LED lightbulb) fails quicker than 7 years you have no light? Or you phone battery fails (They don’t really last more than 2 years with useful capacity) you have no phone? This is back to the dark ages with zero communications!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-transport-secretary-could-halt-the-ulez-expansion-why-doesnt-he/
There is no excuse for Mark Harper. I believe there is a strong case for charging him with malfeasance in public office. At the very least he is guilty of being complicit in this illegal manoeuvre by the Khant.
So if the Tories are complicit in the ULEZ scam the question is why? Rhetorical of course.
Three times today I have had to log in. Has DS got techie problems?
Yeah. Jumped up little squit thinks he’s all powerful.
Londoners – what the **** were you doing letting this petty little demagogue rule over you? Get a bloody grip. No way he’d be mayor of ANY city or town in the South West (bar Bristol and Bath, now pretty much suburbs of London).