I was in our private court last week when we had a number of cases being prosecuted by the local authority, four car-parking violations and one alleged contravention of a hire car licence.
The presenting officer for the Council, who’d travelled 10 miles to be with us, one-by-one withdrew each of the car parking matters and then left the court.
His place was then taken by another officer of the same Council, who had also travelled 10 miles to the court, and who promptly offered ‘no evidence’ in the hire car case and invited us to dismiss the charge.
Now all the car-parking matters could have been withdrawn by post and if it was necessary to send an officer about the hire car allegation why couldn’t he have dealt with all the Local Authority cases that morning?
Do you think that this particular LA has not quite grasped the concept of cost-savings?
How many Local Authority officers does it take to say ‘we’ve changed our mind’?
Answers on a postcard please to The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
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