Someone Is Going To Get It In The Morning!

[Sidewinder]

If you check the link from Slips it does state that parking notices that look too much like LA parking enforcement notices are illegal.

See post #2!

 

[kerching]

Ive just read all of the guidance document......interesting reading.

apart from wheel clamping being banned it now appears that the scamming thieving lying wheel clamping twats can persue you to the ends of the earth to get their ill gotten gains!

Lets  be careful out there!

 

[Jono Pashley]

Well from what im told the ticket SHOULD be cancelled seeing as we followed the procedure to log vehicles into the site and that is refected in the signing in book. Just some muppet failed to input vehicles for that day. If not i think a reasonable fee for administrating their error and paying the PCN would be around £200!

 

[wozz]

If its for parking and its not given to you by the council or the police you do not have to pay it, that's what I've always read and no one has ever said any different. Few threatening letters at the worst I reckon. 

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

If its for parking and its not given to you by the council or the police you do not have to pay it, that's what I've always read and no one has ever said any different. Few threatening letters at the worst I reckon. 

This is completely wrong. Please read  my earlier posts , the law changed  Oct 1 2012

 

[kerching]

I was ofthe same thought as Wozz

then i read the gubbimennt link

now i am with Slips.....it has all changed and NOT for the good

just ......recanting my previous understandings

 

[Nicky Tesla]

I got a fine that cannot be called a fine but instead a "penalty" charge from Parking Eye.  I sent an email with my days receipts and the fine oops penalty has now been quashed.

One more thing,  they give you so many days to respond, yet the letters do not come recorded delivery so they cannot prove you received them.

 

[wozz]

Well I could be wrong then but besides what I've read many time on other forums my sister got a pcn the other day ( due to she works there and is there fore not allowed to park there) but she parked there as she was visiting and not working, she we t to the office and said she wasn't paying they admitted they can't enforce the pcn but can try and chase the £1 she should have paid for parking. 

Also the link mentions 'trespass' I'm not legal expert but was always of the understanding 'trespass' was a civil matter involving more than one person, a single person is not trespass. 

As I say I'm no expert just hear say from good sources. 

 

[wozz]

Seems its a contract dispute no mention of trespass. 

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets

55% win then taken to court and how many get taken to court? Seems I may have been wrong but its far from black and white. If its unfair I would fight it, it gotta be more fun than going to work! Would you get expenses paid? 

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Like I said in #13, there are thousands of threads/pages/letters out on the interwebby about this but the law changed on 1 Oct 12 & the vast majority of these pre date that so are now wrong. Even most of the later posts are still wrong as people refer to the stuff they read,  about earlier stuff.

There are still many current web sites Pepipoo being a leader but these sites are full of posts of people trying to beat the systems when they know that really  they are in the wrong but may wriggle out of a fine through a loophole. I watched an interesting documentary a few weeks back about motorists, some who un-registered their cars so claim they don't have to follow most the motoring  laws now. Anyhow I digress, I also am no expert on this but the government guide to the legislation seems pretty clear to me that as long as correct signage is posted then there is no argument  to contracts, landowners, fees or anything else.

What makes me laugh about Martin Lewis site wozz mentioned is all the way through it says its about unfair tickets but then uses an example of being 15 min over a 2 hour max parking in a Wickes car park & not to pay it. Well your in the wrong then, your 15 min over, end of. Now I am not saying I think that's right for a 2 hour limit in a superstore carpark  and there may be other reasons for overstaying but that website is only interested in telling you to never pay.

 

[wozz]

The link posted does refer to unfair charges. As in charges that are wrongly issued, and telling you not to give in. If you think a fine is fair for you staying 15mins over pay it if you think it's not fair challenge it I think is the bottom line . In the ops case it's unfair challenge it. Worst case you will stand infront a judge who will decide.  

As for the example depends how fair you think the fine is for 15mins over.