Liverpool City Council's Unlawful Parking Tickets

On 23rd August 2006 Liverpool City Council were hit with the following:

Nicola Stockton
Parking Services Supervisor
Liverpool City Council

Dear Nicola,

Thank you for returning my telephone call.

I would be grateful for answers to the following (please treat as a Freedom of Information Request wherever necessary):

Can you please confirm the date that Liverpool City Council became aware that the Penalty Charge Notices they were issuing were non-compliant?

Please confirm the date Liverpool City Council received the National Parking Adjudication Service Circular MacArthur v Bury (BC 188) regarding the wording of PCNs and why the PCNs were not altered then?

Can you please provide a copy of the e-mail you referred to in the telephone conversation referring to the recent High Court decision in Moses v Barnet before Justice Jackson (2nd August 2006)?

Can you please confirm that Liverpool City Council will not and can not legally pursue any non-compliant PCNs?

Can you please confirm that all DPE enforcement activity will be suspended until the PCNs are made compliant with the requirements of Section 66(3) of the 1991 Road Traffic Act...ie. to include both a date of notice (or date of issue) and the date and time of contravention?

Can you please detail the number and value of PCNs issued by Liverpool City Council since the inception of DPE breaking it down by financial year?

What does Liverpool City Council intend to do with regard to non-compliant PCNs issued which have been paid?

I appreciate the enormity of the task of suspending DPE but as non-compliant PCNs have been declared a nullity by the High Court any attempt to continue to enforce using such illegal documents is a very serious matter indeed and may lead to formal complaints of Misfeasance of Public Office being made to the Police.

I trust I will receive a reply by return to the main points raised as the matter is most certainly in the public interest.
Please confirm receipt of this e-mail and confirm that a copy will be forwarded to elected members.

Yours sincerely,
Neil Herron
12 Frederick Street
Sunderland
SR1 1NA
Tel. 0191 565 7143