ParkingEye meets its match as it takes on a top barrister over an £85 fine |
ParkingEye meets its match as it takes on a top barrister over an £85 fine |
Sat, 26 Aug 2017 - 10:28
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Member Group: Members Posts: 23,582 Joined: 12 Feb 2013 From: London Member No.: 59,924 |
Article on Guardian's site today.
When a parking company fired off an £85 ticket to Nicholas Bowen, little did it know just who it was taking on. ParkingEye went after Bowen for overstaying the free two-hour limit at a motorway service station and, when he wouldn’t roll over, decided to sue him. But the firm, owned by Capita, may now be regretting picking this particular fight after a judge struck out the case and ordered the company to pay his costs of £1,550. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/aug/...rrister-85-fine |
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Sat, 26 Aug 2017 - 10:28
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Sat, 26 Aug 2017 - 11:14
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Member Group: Members Posts: 3,124 Joined: 8 Feb 2013 Member No.: 59,842 |
ParkingEye failed to turn up in court. Default win for the defendant. Hardly one he'll be adding to his CV.
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Sat, 26 Aug 2017 - 21:22
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Member Group: Members Posts: 56,198 Joined: 9 Sep 2003 From: Warwickshire Member No.: 317 |
Failing to turn up sealed their fate really!
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 - 06:09
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Member Group: Members Posts: 6,898 Joined: 15 Dec 2007 From: South of John O'Groats, north of Cape Town. Member No.: 16,066 |
According to PPCs, PE v Beavis makes every ticket enforceable.
Using the same logic, PE v Bowen now makes every ticket unenforceable! -------------------- Cabbyman 11 PPCs 0
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 - 08:31
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In fairness, Parking Eye said in the article that they sent a rep to court, but the Hearing wasn't listed.
They say they paid the Hearing fee but it looks like a mix-up at court. It will be interesting to see whether they appeal. What was surprising was reading that they're taking 1000 people per week to the county court. It's looking like the BBC where Capita (the same company as here) takes one eighth of all Mags' court prosecutions over the tv licence. |
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 - 10:41
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Member Group: Members Posts: 2,012 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 From: High Wycombe Member No.: 1,353 |
According to PPCs, PE v Beavis makes every ticket enforceable. Using the same logic, PE v Bowen now makes every ticket unenforceable! Err ... No. Beavis was a Supreme Court decision, and therefore binding on lower court cases which turn on substantially the same facts and circumstances. Bowen was only a County Court ruling, so can only be considered persuasive, and probably not even that if it was a one-sided hearing. -------------------- We'll fight them on the roads, we'll fight them in the courts, and we shall never, ever, surrender
Cases Won = 20 (17 as McKenzie Friend) : Cases Lost = 4. Private Parking tickets ignored: 3. Paid: 0. |
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 - 12:38
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Member Group: Members Posts: 6,898 Joined: 15 Dec 2007 From: South of John O'Groats, north of Cape Town. Member No.: 16,066 |
My tongue was very firmly poking through my cheek!
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 - 16:29
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The county courts and magistrates' courts must be sick to death of Capita.
How can it be reasonable to burden the courts with parking and tv licence nonsense? Both courts are in the public sector, so financed by taxes levied on private sector profits. No wonder the UK is still borrowing £1 billion per week. |
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Sat, 16 Sep 2017 - 18:45
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Member Group: Members Posts: 23,582 Joined: 12 Feb 2013 From: London Member No.: 59,924 |
Update - Parking Eye sent a cheque but spelt Bowen's first name wrong:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/sep/...torway-services He has since emailed ParkingEye asking it to reissue the cheque in the correct name, while also asking for figures on the number of tickets it issues annually to people overstaying at night in motorway services car parks. He added: “Please indicate if you are prepared to engage with me in a sensible dialogue on the nighttime service station; if I do not hear from you I will continue to campaign against your current practices to help those who find themselves in a similar position to the one you put me in.” |
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 - 06:33
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Member Group: Members Posts: 56,198 Joined: 9 Sep 2003 From: Warwickshire Member No.: 317 |
The county courts and magistrates' courts must be sick to death of Capita. How can it be reasonable to burden the courts with parking and tv licence nonsense? Both courts are in the public sector, so financed by taxes levied on private sector profits. No wonder the UK is still borrowing £1 billion per week. Because if the money is owed and the person won't pay, it may be the only recourse, you have of course forgotten DVLA as well. -------------------- There is no such thing as a law abiding motorist, just those who have been scammed and those yet to be scammed!
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 - 02:55
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Update - Parking Eye sent a cheque but spelt Bowen's first name wrong: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/sep/...torway-services He has since emailed ParkingEye asking it to reissue the cheque in the correct name Petty to the extreme! |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 - 16:28
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My bank once refused to cash a cheque made out to me because my name had been spelled incorrectly. Now that cheques are much less widely used, may not be so much a quibble.
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 - 18:03
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Update - Parking Eye sent a cheque but spelt Bowen's first name wrong: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/sep/...torway-services He has since emailed ParkingEye asking it to reissue the cheque in the correct name Petty to the extreme! Although it might sound roughly similar, Nickalas is an unusual spelling and may have raised a query by the bank. Are you sure that PE was not so spelling it so as not to give him some return hassle to deal with? Would you have thought it equally petty if they'd spelled in Nickerless? Sounds roughly similar too. This post has been edited by Umkomaas: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 - 18:03 |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 - 18:23
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Member Group: Members Posts: 33,610 Joined: 2 Apr 2008 From: Not in the UK Member No.: 18,483 |
Perhaps he was being as petty as PE are with their claims?
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017 - 06:57
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I meant PE being petty by issueing the cheque to the wrong name.
I assume in the prior goings on, PE will have seen his name in writing hundreds of times, yet they still got it wrong. Petty or incompetant, take your pick. |
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017 - 09:09
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Member Group: Members Posts: 33,610 Joined: 2 Apr 2008 From: Not in the UK Member No.: 18,483 |
Oh I see. I choose incompetent.
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