Barrie Segal - After Dinning Speaking

Barrie Segal, the founder of APPEALNOW.com™, has been described by Richard Hammond of “Top Gear” fame as the “UK’s leading Parking Ticket expert”. He has reviewed in excess of 6,000 parking tickets. The drivers' uncaped crusader Barrie is an amazing corporate speaker and great after dinner speaker..

He has recently been in the news when he successfully challenged the legality of three London councils parking tickets and had 455,000 annual parking tickets, generating £17 million, declared illegal and unenforceable. He is currently challenging more local authorities where the annual figures involved are in excess of £60 million. He has recently filmed an interview for BBC TV’s Breakfast News. “Tonight with Trevor McDonald” will be filming his live parking ticket phone in on TalkSport Radio . He is currently assisting the programme with technical advice and is in the process of reviewing the legality of all British councils’ parking tickets.

He has a regular phone-in programme on TalkSport Radio and is a regular contributor to numerous TV shows and radio programmes, including BBC TV’s BBC London News, Real Story, BBC3 TV News, Radio 5.and LBC Radio

Barrie has also uncovered numerous parking ticket scams and has appeared on BBC and Independent television and radio Barrie has also appeared on ITV’s Tonight with Trevor McDonald, London Tonight, Richard Hammond’s 5 O’ Clock Show and The London Programme.

He has been featured in all the major British newspapers and internationally featured in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and many more.

Barrie assisted Which? Magazine’s latest report on parking tickets which received the largest number of letters on any subject the magazine has ever received.

He has also given technical advice to many TV programmes on parking tickets, including the BBC’s Whistleblowers series. He has now been asked to give after dinner speeches about the humorous, annoying and downright wicked sides of the parking ticket system.

In 2003, he founded the Crazy Parking Ticket Awards to highlight the absurd way our parking ticket laws are enforced by local authorities. The first year’s winner was a rabbit which had a parking ticket slapped on its hutch.

He has also been in the forefront of viral advertising on the Internet, having commissioned three viral adverts for his AppealNow.com website. Two of those adverts won Gold Awards at the Cannes International Advertising Awards Festival late last year and one of his viral adverts, Kicking, has been seen by an estimated 5 million people on the Internet.

Barrie has submitted evidence on parking matters to both the London Assembly and the Parliamentary Transport Committee on Parking. He also regularly represents clients before the Parking Adjudicator

He believes that one way to help people fight incorrect parking tickets is to use humour to highlight the lengths to which councils go to issue parking tickets. His files contain thousands of stories and anecdotes on parking tickets, clamping and tow-aways, as well as the congestion charge. He has found that the subject of parking tickets is of universal interest to motorists in Britain, few of whom have been lucky enough to escape the scourge of the parking attendant.

In his “other” life, Barrie is a Chartered Accountant who specialises in company turnarounds, financial advice and IT systems for business. In the mid-80s he was Managing Director in charge of U.S. Operations for an internationally famous restaurant chain and for many years was Senior Tax Partner at a well-known firm of Chartered Accountants. He has also lectured extensively on international tax.

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Barrie Segal is the founder of AppealNow.com™ and is a regular radio broadcaster in the UK.

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Wheel Clamp Campaign Launched (from Bucks Free Press)

Wheel Clamp Campaign Launched (from Bucks Free Press): "Wheel clamp campaign launched

A CLAMPING victim from High Wycombe has this week launched a campaign and is calling on other motorists in High Wycombe to report their horror stories.

Mark Ballard, 36, a building firm company director, was clamped and charged �250 for stopping in a High Wycombe alleyway to look for a lost pencil earlier this year.

Now he wants to hear about other cases where people feel they have been treated unfairly with a view to contacting the Security Industry Authority (SIA), which can remove clamping licenses.
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From May 3 last year, it became illegal to work as a vehicle clamper without a licence from the SIA.

Mr Ballard said: 'I am sure there are many other victims who have been prey to them. I would like to hear from people with a similar experience to me.'
“I am sure there are many other victims who have been prey to them.
Mark Ballard, wheel clamp victim

Mr Ballard was clamped on January 3 after stopping his 4x4 in an alleyway by Priory Road to look for an electronic pencil used to operate his mobile phone, which he had dropped earlier that day.

As he searched a Star Controlled Parking tow truck arrived and drove towards his car, which still had the engine running.

Mr Ballard said: 'I had only been there for a few seconds when I saw the truck.

'I said something along the lines of sorry mate, got in my car and started to do a three point turn to drive out.

'But the truck kept on coming towards me and blocked me in.'

The firm told Mr Ballard he was parked illegally and lifted his car onto the truck.

Mr Ballard said he was told it would cost him �250 on the spot, or they would take his car away.

Star Controlled Parking, which has since left the area, said in a letter to Mr Ballard at the time: 'The signs clearly state permit holders only. We do not target people and we do not ask people to park illegally.'

The firm refused to make any further comment and asked the Free Press to put any questions in writing."