Had an unfair parking ticket? Here’s how to get it cancelled

If you think you’ve been given an unfair parking ticket, it’s worth appealing against it, says Sarah Moore. Over a quarter of appeals end in the fine being cancelled.

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Over a quarter of contested parking tickets were cancelled.

It looks like it might be easier than you'd think to get out of paying a parking ticket. According to recent research, over a quarter of people who complain about being handed a ticket have their fines cancelled. Car finance company Zuto has just released the findings (perhaps in the hope you'll spend your savings on a new car?) which show that of the 170,000 tickets contested over a 12-month period from 2013 to 2014, 46,000 of those were successfully withdrawn, cancelling fines worth £3.2m.

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Sarah is MoneyWeek's investment editor. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA in English and History, before going on to complete a graduate diploma in law at the College of Law in Guildford. She joined MoneyWeek in 2014 and writes on funds, personal finance, pensions and property.