A South Australian woman has won a four-year legal battle against an Adelaide council after challenging a $104 parking fine.

According to court documents, a woman known as Ms Mathie was fined on Boucaut Avenue, Blakeview, adjacent to a private school in Adelaide's north in 2021.

Ms Mathie was fined for "double parking", with court documents stating her car was photographed twice over a two-minute period "stopped in a line of cars", but also immediately parallel to a line of parked cars.

Representing herself at Elizabeth Magistrates Court after she was fined, Ms Mathie argued she was stuck in a line of traffic, and could not drive onto the wrong side of the road.

The magistrate rejected her defence, finding that "two minutes is an exceedingly long time for a car to be stuck in traffic w

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