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I drove my Italian car in the UK (for less than 6 months) last year and one day I visited my friends’ place at XX Agar Grove NW1 XXX London. As I did not have a parking permit, my friend Inga XXXXXXX bought a number of scratch visitor parking cards so that I could park near her place. Unfortunately, I got a fine which was unjust according to me as I had clearly paid for the parking. For this reason Inga contested the fine for me (as I did not have an address in the UK) and attached the evidence which was proving my case. Apart from the copy of the “Cards” which were displayed and used for parking, she included the receipt of purchase of said cards. Unfortunately, she erroneously concluded the email by using the term "my car" and I believe the official who read it was also drawn to a mistake by the fact that the aforementioned receipt of purchase attached was under her name (however it is clear by reading the whole letter that she is referring to someone else's car and therefore her mistake was made in good faith). Thus the officer assumed the car (DG885XA) was hers but this is not only false but also unreasonable, since if she had a car she could have parked with a resident permit as she is resident at XX Agar Grove (the mistake was trivial, nonetheless we are talking about an email anyone could have written). From that day on the Council of Camden has assumed that car is Inga’s and as a result another fine I wasn’t aware of was also issued to her. Ever since the first answer to the fine appeal, she made clear it wasn’t her car and that there was a gross mistake being made by the Council without any proof other than an email of which only two words were being considered. The Council, however, continued to send her these two fines (obviously increasing the price as the time went by) and thus she contacted me and we both went to the Council in person in order to explain them what really happened. I obviously took with me the evidence that the car was mine but they refused to talk to us so, again, we posted the evidence with the copy sent from Italy of the certificate of ownership of the car (note that Inga is Polish and the car is Italian). Now, I believe this unreasonable situation is due to the fact that officers do not know the law and get benefits out of paid fines and yet they deny what the compellingly evidence shows for the mere purpose of terrorizing someone who was not responsible for the alleged fine. Obviously I am willing to pay these fines if and only if the fine are re-issued UNDER THE RIGHT NAME, which is my name as the car is mine. They wouldn’t need to send the fines to Italy as I’m willing to pay online and provide them with my current English address and my contacts: what really matters to me is that this incredible mistake gets sorted WITHOUT my friend having to sustain any further notification, since she has already been through a lot and is very stressed about it.
The Council passed the fines over to Marston group High Court Enforcement Officers&Certificated Bailiffs. This all comes from simply trying to contest a fine issued because the car HAD paid the parking tickets...but for FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS. Had I gone out after 2 hours to change the tickets this would have never happened.
I've been trying to HELP the Council clear Inga's name and send the fines to the right person. The Council states that they had no way of knowing the owner of the car (as foreign cars are not registered to DVLA and they don't have to for the first six months), however many other Councils take advantage of service like Euro Parking Collection Plc (Euro Parking Collection Plc) to do so. On top of that they received official documents showing the owner's name but ignored them. How could I proceed?
The Council passed the fines over to Marston group High Court Enforcement Officers&Certificated Bailiffs. This all comes from simply trying to contest a fine issued because the car HAD paid the parking tickets...but for FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS. Had I gone out after 2 hours to change the tickets this would have never happened.
I've been trying to HELP the Council clear Inga's name and send the fines to the right person. The Council states that they had no way of knowing the owner of the car (as foreign cars are not registered to DVLA and they don't have to for the first six months), however many other Councils take advantage of service like Euro Parking Collection Plc (Euro Parking Collection Plc) to do so. On top of that they received official documents showing the owner's name but ignored them. How could I proceed?
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