Founder of Appealnow.com, broadcaster, chartered accountant
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 19,000 parking tickets. The motorists’ uncaped crusader, Barrie is a great corporate and after dinner speaker...
He was in the news in 2006 when he successfully challenged the legality of council parking tickets in the High Court. As a result 6 million parking tickets in the UK were found to be illegal and unenforceable. He is currently in the process of reviewing the legality of all British councils’ parking tickets.
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 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 a regular phone-in programme on TalkSport Radio and is a regular contributor to numerous TV shows and radio programmes, including BBC TV’s Breakfast News, BBC London News, Real Story, ITV News, BBC’s The Today Programme, Radio 5 and LBC Radio. He also recently appeared on America’s ABC Nightline 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, an article that resulted in 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 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.
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 now written a book called “The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell” which was published in October 2007 and which was features on Richard & Judy.
He has now been asked to give after dinner speeches about the humorous, annoying and downright wicked sides of the parking ticket system.
He believes that one way to encourage people to 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 The Hard Rock Café 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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