Sadiq Khan’s Transport for London may have to pay back millions of pounds in Ulez fines after a legal challenge by European drivers. The Standard has more.
Lawyers for Dutch lorry drivers have launched a legal challenge against Transport for London (TfL) in the High Court.
They claim up to £6.5 million worth of penalties were issued unlawfully, with drivers reportedly reduced “to tears” and “forced to sell their trucks” because of the charges.
Transport in Nood BV, which is employed by Dutch travel companies to manage and pay fines, say it resorted to legal action after its clients received more than 10,000 fines from TfL through its debt collection agency, the Euro Parking Collection (EPC).
They enlisted British law firm Smith, Bowyer and Clarke, which claims that, in many cases, multiple fines were sent at the same time.
Lawyers will argue that if the fines were received as and when they happened, drivers would have been able to change their behaviour and avoid being penalised further.
It is also claimed the EPC is using an excessively high exchange rate to send the fines in euros, when they should be charged in pounds, according to the Telegraph.
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