’Free spirit man’ Timothy Noel Rossiter launches bid to beat new fine after failed Supreme Court challenge
A man who tried and failed to get the Supreme Court to scrap a parking ticket because he didn’t consent to a council’s authority is back in court fighting a new fine with a new claim.
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A man who appealed a parking fine all the way to the Supreme Court because he said the parking inspector trespassed on his car is back in court on another parking fine.
Timothy Noel Rossiter, of Edwardstown, failed in his last bid to have a fine from Adelaide City Council overturned, ultimately costing him more than $2000, despite his claims that he was a “free spirit man” who “did not consent” to being governed by the council.
Now he has elected to be prosecuted on another parking fine – this time from Marion Council.
Court documents allege Mr Rossiter parked and left his black Toyota ute in a bike lane on the side of Diagonal Road at Oaklands Park on June 13 last year.
A bike lane operates on the road from 4pm until 6pm on weekdays.
A fine was attached to Mr Rossiter’s car and he elected to be prosecuted.
Last time Mr Rossiter challenged a parking fine, he said he had a sign in his windscreen saying his car was “private property” and warning “no trespassing”.
In a handwritten Supreme Court appeal, he listed 11 reasons he opposed the verdict – including the sign on his windscreen, that the fine was put on his car without permission, that it included foreign text he did not understand and that he did not enter a plea.
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In his judgment against the appeal, Justice Mark Livesey said Rossiter claimed to have written to Adelaide City Council in 2014 saying he was “Timothy-Noel: Rossiter, Free-spirit man” who was “man and man has certain inalienable rights”.
In the letter, he said his “truth and law exists inside me” and that he did not “consent to being governed/represented”.
“If anyone does revoke or deny consent they exist free of government control and statutory restraints,” the letter read.
Mr Rossiter did not appear at the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday.
His case will return on September 1.