7 August (Part 1) - There is no escape from CCTV
I spent seven hours in hospital yesterday - visiting. My Quiz team friend was
taken to Whipp’s Cross Hospital (Leytonstone E11) unable to breath properly and for various
reasons there was no one more local to be with him. The Elizabeth line helped me
get there in just under an hour and we sat around as a succession of medics
checked him over and said they would return in just a few minutes. An hour later - repeat, over five such visits,
The earlier ones said he could go home later as long as I was there to take him,
then that changed to probable admission because of the high steroid doses and
being on oxygen. At 7 p.m. he was taken to a ward and I was able to leave.
Just before 10 p.m. I received a text message to say he had been thrown out of
hospital unaccompanied and was on the first of two buses home. What a shambles
and the plans I had to assemble a computer and maybe write something for BiB had to be abandoned.
There has been rather a lot of incoming email recently most of which requires some research but this one doesn’t.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12377011/Sadiq-Khans-TfL-broke-law-using-CCTV-traffic-wardens-fine-drivers-landmark-ruling-motorists-owed-millions-pounds-refunds.html
Interesting if the same rule applies in Bexley with CCTV in yellow box junctions
but I can’t believe they acted illegally. I mean, they would take advice from
senior advisors in finance, in legal (Monitoring Officer at the time Nick Hollier) and elsewhere. But it makes you think.
Unfortunately the law is that Councils must use enforcement by officers on foot only for any offence that may be safely
and practically done that way, which allows camera surveillance for banned left or right hand turns, U-turns,
No Entries, driving in bus lanes and entering a yellow box junction when the exit is not clear.
TfL has been enforcing parking offences by camera and thereby acting outside the law.