Misleading BBC Story-PPC Tickets

Crabman

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kalaika

I saw the story omn Breakfast this morning and also thought it was very woolly and confusing, but can I ask you learned people on here about a specific line in that BBC article. There is one line in the link that trisontana gave that reads:

In fact anyone can issue tickets, providing they own the land involved.

So, does that mean that tickets issued by the actual landowner (rather than a third party PPC) are actually legally enforceable, or is this one of the errors....?

trisontana

kalaika wrote: »

So, does that mean that tickets issued by the actual landowner (rather than a third party PPC) are actually legally enforceable, or is this one of the errors....?

No. Don't forget that the landowner is just a private citizen, and civil law states that one private citizen (the landowner) cannot punish another citizen ( the motorist). All the landowner can do is to sue the motorist in the civil court and claim back any actual material loss suffered. In most cases that loss amounts to precisely zero, so nothing can be claimed. Anything above that would be deemed an unfair penalty.

geordieracer

Quite amazing to read this.. There was also something on Radio Kent the other morning about parent and child parking spaces being used by other users and how wrong it was.. Emailed them about how it was unenforceable and why dont they put them at the back of the car park but never read it out..

Only got a handful of callers from Mumsnet talking about how much these spaces were needed and how the people who park in them should be killed or soemthing similar