Parking Ticket Appeals successes and failures

derrick

Parking Eye lose case.

peter_the_piper

derrick wrote: »

Parking Eye lose case.

As far as I can make out she took P.E to court which keeps P.E's record of not taking anyone to court intact.

derrick

peter_the_piper wrote: »

As far as I can make out she took P.E to court which keeps P.E's record of not taking anyone to court intact.

Correct, but they did defend it, and lost, although they re going to appeal, ("we will of course be appealing the decision"), so a case of wait and see.

Did you read the comments? Not many agree with the decision.

Coblcris

I hazard that they they will not appeal.

aldoc999

Firstly thanks for the advice and use of the letters on the site,

I appealed a Local Council PCN ...they use those stupid scratch card parking permits and silly ba*** here scratched a 1 and 7 instead of 17 !! so under Mitigating Circumstances, using your pre formed letter, I explained that fact and it was a Saturday (the 1st & 7th didn't fall on a Sat luckily !) and the fact it took a warden nearly 5 hours to spot my deliberate mistake (they walk past almost every 10 minutes - more regular than buses !) so 46 days later I get a letter saying that "on this occasion no further action will be taken " and please ensure you scratch off the permits correctly in future" !!
cheers and beers for the help ..it's worth fighting especially if you think you are right (even if you did ba**s it up in the first place !)
:beer::j

susie1

I received a ticket when I had visited a shopping centre twice, staying for an hour in the morning and a few minutes later in the day when I went to return an item. They refused to acknowledge that I had left and returned later, claiming that they had photographic evidence and it was up to me to prove otherwise. (They had a photo of me arriving for my first visit and leaving after the second visit) The ticket arrived ten months after the alleged infringment but by chance I remembered the day clearly as it happened to be my daugther's birthday. I refused to pay as I knew I had not been parked there all day. As I don't work it was difficult to prove that I had not been there, particularly after such a long period of time, then my husband had the idea of checking our phone bill as I was the only one at home and there was a long phone call registered to my sister! It was flimsy evidence but once they knew I was prepared to fight they backed down but they did not acknowledge that they were in the wrong. I also tracked down the actual owners of the car park and contacted them. Although I did not pay the fine I spent a lot of time writing letters and tracking back my movements on that particular day. It seems to me that these cowboys have nothing to lose from intimidating innocent members of the public. Needless to say I don't shop there anymore, and nor do my family and friends as I have been on a mission to tell everyone to be very careful if they park at St. John's retail park in Wolverhampton! Go elsewhere, it's just not worth the worry and hazzle of parking and shopping there!

jamesgdavies

I was issued with a ticket in a Tesco car park as I usually refuse to pay for parking when i am shopping there. The attendant was at my car when I came out and, although I was amazingly polite towards him, he proceeded to be extremely rude when I challenged him. He told me that it was people like me who pay his wages and that I must have been longer than the ten minutes allowed before tickets are issued. I was in fact 7 minutes inside the store.
Of course i appealed and was told that nothing could be done. This was a privately run car park so I knew that the ticket held no real weight. I wrote a letter to the store manager explaining that i felt it could be extremely damaging to their reputation and that I was considering reporting the attendant to the police for falsely representing himself as a council officer. (he suggested that the car park was still owned by the council)
I heard nothing for a week or so, so i hand-delivered another copy of my original letter. I was met by the assistant manager who informed me that the ticket was now revoked and that parking rules in their car park were being reviewed to make them fairer to store customers. A hatily arranged meeting with the ticketing company had also been arranged and I was asked whether i had invovled the police yet. I hadn't and they were clearly relieved.
all in all, a good outcome, it just goes to show if you don't appeal, you won't get off the ticket!

taffy056

jamesgdavies wrote: »

all in all, a good outcome, it just goes to show if you don't appeal, you won't get off the ticket!

Yes a very good outcome if Tesco gets rid of the cowboys, but really you didn't have to do anything as the parking tickets they gave are unenforceable at all, they are just invoices and private companies cannot fine you, the simple thing to do if it happens again is simply to completely ignore the PPC, the bogus debt collectors, and their equally bogus solicitors, they are just trying to scare you into paying, and they do not do court at all because they would lose every time.

Stonegirl

I was recently unfairly clamped and had to pay an extortionate sum (in cash only!) to be released. The name of the company on the signage was different from that on the ticket - both operate from P.O. Box addresses.

I have appealed, within the deadline, to the company on the ticket, but have received no reply. Who should I take action against? Can you take companies that operate from P.O. Boxes to court?

Coblcris

Action against the clamper and the landowner/occupier - 'jointly and severally'.