Boat lawyer wins cases for $ 3 million





18-year-old British student IT-Joshua Browder (Joshua Browder) in August last year opened a website donotpay.co.uk, which helps motorists to automatically create and send an appeal to the received receipt of the fine. Independently people can not do it, because the procedure for the many complex legal services and almost always exceed the amount of the fine.

In just six months, the bot-lawyer has helped recover fines of more than 2 million pounds ($ 3 million). Site benefited 86 thousand. Man, and almost 40% of appeals were successful. The author of the project was very surprised that the boat is so popular.

"When I ran DoNotPay, it is assumed that it will help a small number of friends and relatives. I could never imagine that it can be returned to the fines millionth the size ", - says Browder

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Joshua himself started programming at the age of 12 years, and the idea to launch a website with a program to compile the appeal came after him came three dozen receipts for fines for several months after obtaining a driving license.

Online people show some information about yourself and choose one of the 12 reasons why they dispute the fine. The entire procedure takes less than 30 seconds.





It is known that the city authorities receive a good income, collecting fines from motorists. Not surprisingly, it is often prescribed penalties all in a row without a suitable base. The UK authorities collect road fines of about a billion dollars a year, equivalent.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/271396/

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