Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

The site advice for these is to ignore them. The link below shows just one of the difficulties faced by private parking companies seeking to enforce them:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n...urn-fines.html

[michael]

Re: Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

Ibbotson Judgment.pdf

IT IS ORDERED THAT

1) The claim is struck out.

2) The order of District Judge Stephenson dated 3rd March 2012 is rescinded and the Claimant shall pay to the Defendant the s um of £42.50 w ithin 21 days of today.

3) The managing director for the Claimant named as Mr Simon Renshaw Smith is ordered to file at Court by 4.00pm on 29th June 2012, a statement containing an explanation as to the manifest discrepancy namely the bringing of an action in contract and the tort of trespass in the companies name with no lawful contractual assignment of authority to do so.

4) A copy of this order shall be served on the British Parking Association for information.

Dated 16 May 2012

Looking forward to his explanation on June 29th

[labman]

Re: Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

Yes, should be interesting to see him try and explain this one away.

Another of these companies, CPS Ltd, is becoming well known for trying to get onto forums like this one. When something is posted up about the fine, they will pm the member to tell them they are best paying it and using scare tactics in the message backed by dubious law.
I reiterate that the advice of this site is to totally ignore everything that comes from Parking Charge Notices.

Penalty Charge Notices and Fixed Penalty Notices should always be paid promptly to get the 50% discount.

[bluebottle]

Re: Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

This is the third court case that has nailed yet another nail into the coffin of the private parking industry in the UK. When is the private parking industry going to learn?

[Hurricane Puffrose]

Re: Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

Yes, should be interesting to see him try and explain this one away.

Another of these companies, CPS Ltd, is becoming well known for trying to get onto forums like this one. When something is posted up about the fine, they will pm the member to tell them they are best paying it and using scare tactics in the message backed by dubious law.
I reiterate that the advice of this site is to totally ignore everything that comes from Parking Charge Notices.

Penalty Charge Notices and Fixed Penalty Notices should always be paid promptly to get the 50% discount.

May I add if you are new and get a message like Labman has highlighted, please forward it to an admin, Celestine, CurlyBen, Amethyst, Sapphire any of them, or to Labman, me Bluebottle etc and we can forward them for you, that way we can rout them out and have them dealt with.. permanantly

[labman]

Re: Parking Charge Notices - Thousands of 'Fines' Overturned

This is the third court case that has nailed yet another nail into the coffin of the private parking industry in the UK. When is the private parking industry going to learn?

What were the other two? I have a bee in my bonnet about this at present to do with a local shopping area (I got a ticket, cheeky buggers!) so references to other cases would be extremely useful. Could you post up details or links please?

Thanks!