Even though the two motorists had paid to park their car in Copenhagen, they had both a parking ticket because they had not entered their number plates correctly.
Thursday comes the cases of parkeringsbøder of the country’s top court, which must determine whether it is reasonable that the errors should trigger a parking ticket.
Both drivers paid for parking at an atm. There was not print a physical ticket, but the information about payment was sent to an online database.
Unfortunately for the drivers, they had both made a mistake when they entered their registration numbers in connection with the payment. The one typed a letter for a bit, and the other is a letter too much.
It meant that parkeringsvagten by a lookup in the database will not be able to see that they had paid for parking, and they got a fine.
Motorists would not find themselves in the fines and went to court. But they were not much wiser.
In one case, said the judge, under the jurisdiction of the district court, that it is the driver’s responsibility to make sure that the information entered is correct. The driver was therefore sentenced to pay the fine.
In the second case reached the court to a different conclusion. Although the driver is responsible for that the information is correct, could the municipality in the case identify the car and find that there was paid parking. The court repealed therefore parkeringsbøden.
Usually can bødesager not be appealed, but He gave permission for both cases were appealed to the high court.
In February and march of last year, cases decided respectively in the Vestre and Østre Landsret.
Both landsretter certain that the fines should be annulled, even if the drivers had made a mistake in the typing.
the Copenhagen Municipality then sought permission to bring the case to the Supreme court.
the Municipality received permission from He, and on Thursday to the judges in the Supreme court then hear the parties arguments.
the Verdict falls only at a later stage.