Former Wellington mayor Dame Kerry Prendergast appeared before the Wellington District Court to challenge a $40 parking ticket issued by the city council for parking on a footpath in a slipway off Victoria Street.
Prendergast, who served as mayor from 2001 to 2010 and now works as a company director, argued that the signage in the area was ambiguous and that there were no clear indications that parking was prohibited.
Representing herself, she claimed that she had parked in a paved area without markings or signs and noted that other cars frequently parked there as well.
The case was postponed from July due to a Justice of the Peace falling ill and another recusing himself due to a personal connection to Prendergast.
During the court proceedings, a council witness described the area as a pedestrian route, though Prendergast and her witness, a retired civil engineer, argued that the space was not clearly designated as a footpath.
The council’s lawyer, Katherine Lee, maintained that the council had established the area as a footpath, which Prendergast disputed, calling the council’s descriptions inconsistent. The Justices of the Peace have reserved their decision, with a written judgment expected by mid-November.
With all due respect.
Ex-mayor Prendergast should be making loud noises about the daft creepy deranged woke/marxist/green/communist infestation currently afflicting Wellington local government.
Its a bit like being white in South Africa
When it gets too bad you get out
Who would want to live in that pox hole is beyond me
And what’s the title for?
Something to do with the baby we are left with holding now?
It’s all pretty simple.
1. No more cycle lanes.
2. Fix the water pipes.
3. No bent ‘consultants’.
How’s that for a long term plan?