warrant for parking ticket - does it show on credit file?

pipsi_2

I received a parking ticket a few months back, we submitted an appeal, the council replied asking for a copy of the relevant permit which we sent. We didn't hear anything so assumed they had just cancelled the charge.

Months passed and then we received a letter from a bailiffs company saying a warrant had been issued. After letters back and forward to the court appealing on the grounds that we had submitted the required evidence etc it's got the stage where to appeal the courts decision we need to pay £75, the other option is to pay £93 to the bailiff company. My OH is fed up with it all and just wants to pay, i want to fight it.

Basically my question is if he pays it does this sit on my credit file even though it will state it is settled for six years, or is it only CCJs that appear on credit files? It's been exactly one month since the bailiff company wrote to me so i'm assuming the warrant was issued a few days before this - we didn't receive any papers from the courts so we don't have anything with the date the warrant was issued. If it is something that will show on my file is there anyway to get it taken off. Obviously if we decide to just pay we need to do so fast otherwise i could have bailiffs knocking on my door any minute.

Ames

I'm pretty sure (about 99%) that it wont go on your credit rating at all. I imagine it's the same as council tax and that doesn't. After all, it's not 'credit'.

If you want to fight it then there's a forum on here about it, or if you google fight back forums there's a great site, they helped me a lot with a ticket and I won at tribunal.

DarkConvict

I would still fight it, and seek to recover costs form the council. You supplied evidence of the permit and that the charge was invalid. You were also never notified they had ignored this and gone to court.

But as above, its not credit and should not appear on your credit file.
If it does appear on your file, then they needed to get a CCJ which you can pay to set aside and show your proof in court in front of a judge.
Obviously a CCJ can do alot of damage and last along time, so costly if one is added.

pipsi_2

I think my OH is just going to pay it, we've had too many arguments over it between the two of us to take it further. His argument is that it'll cost £75 to fight it and get it transferred to our local court and then if we do happen to lose (he sent a copy of the permit via fax and we aren't 100% convinced that they accept them this way, although he is sure he's appealed on before by faxing stuff) we'll end up paying more. My concern was that it's now been more than 30 days since the warrant was issued so if he did pay it it would still show on my credit file, so there was more reason to fight it. If it doesn't show i'm just gonna let him pay it and hopefully that'll be the end of it.

Ames

I'd still pop over to fightbackforums, you might be able to fight it by going to tribunal (which is free) rather than the courts. There's a time limit, but as your original informal appeal wasn't acknowledged it shouldn't be a problem. That's if it was a council one, if it's a police one it's a bit different.