Car Parking Fines

Please could the mods change the word in the title to invoices and not fines.
 
Monkfish said:
under no circumstances follow this advice unless you want problems - this letter below is tried and tested for Portwood...

Dear {name of IPC member, only IPC members for this version!!!}

Re PCN number:

I am not ignoring your charge for a purported parking infraction. As this is purely a charge (not a statutory penalty) issued under a purported contract and the driver has not been identified, I require the following information so that I can make an informed decision:

1. Who is the party that contracted with your company for the provision of their services? I require their contact details.
2. What is the full legal identity of the landowner?
3. As you are not the landowner please provide a contemporaneous and unredacted copy of your contract with the landholder that demonstrate that you have their authority to both issue parking charges and litigate in your own name.
4. Is your charge based on damages for breach of contract? Answer yes or no.
5. If the charge is based on damages for breach of contract please provide your justification of this sum.
6. Is your charge based on a contractually agreed sum for the provision of parking? Answer yes or no.
7. If the charge is based on a contractually agreed sum for the provision of parking please provide a valid VAT invoice for this 'service'.
8. Please provide a copy of the signs that purportedly were on site which you contend formed a contract with the driver on that occasion.

If you believe you have a cause of action, send a Letter before Claim within the next 21 days and I will take advice and will respond.

In my opinion, there is a better alternative than legal proceedings, namely that we utilise the services of a completely independent ADR service suited to parking charges. This does not include the IAS appeal service - which lacks any transparency and possibly any independence from the IPC - unlike the alternative offered by the British Parking Association, POPLA, which is transparent and has been shown to be independent.

Do not send debt collector letters and do not add any costs or surcharges. I will not respond to those, so to involve another firm would be a failure to mitigate your alleged loss. In any case, the addition of any debt collector 'costs' is not my liability because the POFA 2012 can only potentially hold a registered keeper liable if certain provisions have been met and even then, the 'amount of the parking charge' is the only amount pursuable.

Yours faithfully,
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Always works for me, all bluster their letters and never sent by recorded post. All private 'parking fines ' are not legally enforceable, check out various websites who offer advice. It's foolish to get into any correspondence, the letters will get increasing threatening but it's just not worth their while pursuing. They work on that a percentage of people will pay up as the letters talk about legal action and baliffs.
@kinkyblue how long have you been working for parking eye and the like?
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Please could the mods change the word in the title to invoices and not fines.
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Yes! Parking companies try to make out you are being fined but really they decide that you are entering into a contract with them by parking on land they 'police ' but really they issue and invoice which it's up to you if you pay or not.
 
kas_tippler said:
Always works for me, all bluster their letters and never sent by recorded post. All private 'parking fines ' are not legally enforceable, check out various websites who offer advice. It's foolish to get into any correspondence, the letters will get increasing threatening but it's just not worth their while pursuing. They work on that a percentage of people will pay up as the letters talk about legal action and baliffs.
@kinkyblue how long have you been working for parking eye and the like?
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most on here know what I do! You are giving the wrong advice and will cost people if they are foolish enough to listen. Only came on to show people how to avoid the fines invoices or whatever else you wish to call them.
 
kas_tippler said:
Always works for me, all bluster their letters and never sent by recorded post. All private 'parking fines ' are not legally enforceable, check out various websites who offer advice. It's foolish to get into any correspondence, the letters will get increasing threatening but it's just not worth their while pursuing. They work on that a percentage of people will pay up as the letters talk about legal action and baliffs.
@kinkyblue how long have you been working for parking eye and the like?
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Sadly this is nonsense.

The test case was lost and the high court gave the go ahead to pursue.
HonestJohn now advises people to stump up.
 
kinkyblue said:
so was I, 7-8 hours, four days on the trot! for some reason in my old car i never got a thing and did it all the time. As soon as I got the new car, bang ticket every time! How long was it since the offence?
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It's been a couple of years now. Was at Swansea away
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Sadly this is nonsense.

The test case was lost and the high court gave the go ahead to pursue.
HonestJohn now advises people to stump up.
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jeez stop flapping!
 
I've just won an appeal with Bristol Council. We've had a load of parking zones introduced and they've had a bot of a clusterfuck in introducing them. Wasn't clear where people could park. Given that I appealed it nearly 4 months ago, it just shows that they've had more than one appeal!!
 
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