{"id":13093,"date":"2017-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/adelaide-man-s-parking-ticket-ends-up-costing-him-4-000\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T00:00:00","slug":"adelaide-man-s-parking-ticket-ends-up-costing-him-4-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/adelaide-man-s-parking-ticket-ends-up-costing-him-4-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Man\u2019s Parking Ticket Ends Up Costing Him $4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An Adelaide man\u2019s $95 parking ticket will cost him at least $4,000 after he challenged the fine in court.<\/h3>\n<h3>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntnews.com.au\/news\/national\/court-orders-man-to-pay-4000-of-councils-legal-fees-after-losing-parking-fine-appeal\/news-story\/d84ece940637e31466141802fec7fef5\">News Ltd<\/a>, Grant McDougall, 46, from Smithfield Plains appealed a fine for parking on the verge in front of his house. Mr McDougall, representing himself, argued that councils have no authority under the Constitution to enforce laws.<\/h3>\n<p>But one day after his hearing a judge threw out the challenge and ordered Mr McDougall to pay Playford Council\u2019s legal fees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe grounds of appeal on their face make little or no sense and the appellant has been unable to assist further in this respect in either his written or oral submissions,\u201d Justice Nicholson said.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr McDougall has said he won\u2019t pay and now plans to take his fight to the Federal Court.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEAABreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIVEAABreakfast<\/a> podcast with David &amp; Will:<br><br>iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB\">https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB<\/a><br>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mNHFMpn4Rb\">https:\/\/t.co\/mNHFMpn4Rb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fPNXdeDYo\">pic.twitter.com\/7fPNXdeDYo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/935658588718080000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Adelaide man\u2019s $95 parking ticket will cost him at least $4,000 after he challenged the fine in court. According to News Ltd, Grant McDougall, 46, from Smithfield Plains appealed a fine for parking on the verge in front of his house. Mr McDougall, representing himself, argued that councils have no authority under the Constitution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adelaide Man\u2019s Parking Ticket Ends Up Costing Him $4,000 - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/adelaide-man-s-parking-ticket-ends-up-costing-him-4-000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adelaide Man\u2019s Parking Ticket Ends Up Costing Him $4,000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Adelaide man\u2019s $95 parking ticket will cost him at least $4,000 after he challenged the fine in court. 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