Why is the keeper (owner) liable, not the driver?
This is what the law says, not the council. When the police enforced parking ‘offences’, the driver was normally liable, not the keeper. However, tracing a driver was frequently difficult, time-consuming and more costly than tracing the keeper. As parking contraventions are considered minor issues that should not clog up the judicial system, the new legislation made the keeper liable to avoid endless debate about who should be liable for the ‘fine’.
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