Fines for parking and using bus lanes dropped four out of ten times when appealed

40% of appealed parking and bus lane fines issued by local authorities have been cancelled, figures suggest.

Nearly half of appeals to councils across the country over 5 years have been successful.

The RAC described these statistics “frightening” adding that drivers were “right to appeal”.

The Local Government Association praised the “effective” appeal process leading to this data.

Of nearly 4.3 million appeals, 1.8 million were successful, figures released under the FOI Act reveal. 

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Chris Huhne Loses £77,750 Legal Costs Appeal

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Judges uphold ruling ordering former former cabinet minister Chris Huhne to pay £77,750 costs from trial over speeding points scandal. Huhne’s legal team’s original offer of £25,000 towards costs but this was rejected with "no hesitation". On top of this Huhne, was ordered to pay £1,279 prosecution costs relating to the appeal court proceedings.

Three judges at the court of appeal rejected his case at a hearing in London on Tuesday.
The costs order was made in May by Mr Justice Sweeney at Southwark crown court in London.
Prosecutors claimed more than £100,000 from Huhne, who pleaded guilty last February.
His former wife, the economist Vicky Pryce, who was convicted by a jury, was ordered to pay £49,200.

Both have served prison sentences for perverting the course of justice after she took speeding points for her then-husband in 2003.

Dr Pryce has abandoned her own application to challenge the costs order as against her