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AndreaC wrote:


Plus of course, the warden more than likely doesn't care if you
successfully appeal against the ticket - they've already got their
commission for issuing it (or am I just too cynical?)

It depends on the terms of the contract between the council and the
ticket issuing company; and that company and the employees, both of
which are treated like a closely guarded commercial secret. In many
cases there are claw back procedures the council can follow if tickets
are wrongly issued. Is this then clawed back from the individual
attendant? I strongly doubt it unless they issued a very high proportion
of duds. But I doubt this will extend to those cancelled on
discretionary grounds, as in the case we're discussing, so yes, the
attendant is now one step closer to hitting their target by issuing
tickets in circumstances where it is wholly inappropriate.

And don't blame the attendant: they are doing the job they have been
instructed and paid to do. The system provides the wrong commercial
incentives to the wrong people, this kind of behaviour is the inevitable
result.

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