Council failed to provide Welsh-language hearing documents

If you are appealing a Welsh council's parking penalty, you have a legal right to have your appeal heard in Welsh and to receive all the council's documents — such as their evidence pack and case summary — in Welsh. If you asked for Welsh-language documents and the council only sent everything in English, the council has broken the rules. This failure can mean your appeal succeeds, even if it is decided on paper without an oral hearing.

Legal basis

Welsh Language Act 1993 s.22; Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 Sched 6; Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Representations and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2013; Traffic Penalty Tribunal Procedural Rules

How to identify this in your case

If the motorist appeals in Welsh and the Council files an English-only evidence pack, raise the Welsh-language right.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
Paying may end it. Paying can count as accepting the notice and can close a challenge already under way. Part-paying or acknowledging an old debt can also revive a time limit that had expired.
The amount can change. Check what happens to the sum if you challenge — it may be held, re-offered lower, or keep rising, and fees or enforcement can continue meanwhile.
Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

Annwyl Adjudicator / Dear Adjudicator, Re: TPT Reference [REF] Mae'r apêl hon yn yr iaith Gymraeg ac rwy'n ymarfer fy hawl o dan Adran 22 Deddf yr Iaith Gymraeg 1993 i gael gwrandawiad a dogfennau yn y Gymraeg. The Council has filed an English-only case summary. Please direct the Council to provide a complete Welsh-language case file or, in default, to allow the appeal under regulation 4(1)(e) WSI 2013/362. Yn gywir, [ENW]

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Council failed to provide Welsh-language hearing documents

Legal basis

How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

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