Found This regarding District Enforcement

robredz

This article is in the Staffordshire Sentinel regarding the "ethical" parking enforcement organisation District Enforcemement, who as is already known are law graduates who have a "watertight" system to ensure compliance.....

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/new-breed-law-warden/article-3039697-detail/article.html?cacheBust=0MfU19KPt5D5&success=true#community

HO87

Motorists will be slapped with £80 fines and the company may take them to court if they refuse to pay.

Richard Dobble, 35, of District Enforcement said:

Using our knowledge of contract law, we've come up with a solution which is legally water-tight and fair.

and went on to explain that it relies on penalty tickets to drive home the message.

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robredz

"District Enforcement has now been awarded approved operator status with the British Parking Association and has also won the backing of Mobilise, the charity for disabled drivers."

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"Using our knowledge of contract law, we've come up with a solution which is legally water-tight and fair."

Is that the Norwich Pharmical Order perchance?There is a document regarding their development here:[PDF] Download - K Norwich Pharmacal orders over the last 20 years

Normally the applicant (ppc) would have to pay the costs of the defendant(RK) but there is an argument that the Totalise case gives precedent to recover the cost of the order from the wrongdoer (driver), and the RK may be an innocent party. : http://www.out-law.com/page-8699

The costs could spiral out of control like a neighbour boundary dispute, and in view of the triviality of the tortious liability of the wrongdoer the order may not may not even be granted, on the triviality of the sum involved. legal fees in the thousands against a claim for 80 quid recoverable from the driver? the law would truly be a donkey (three letter word meaning donkey is censored here !!!) One cannot put the law is an A*S
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there is more info here:

http://www.inbrief.co.uk/civil-court/special-disclosure-orders.htm

I feel this would be the sledgehammer to crack a nut, and if seriously pursued by a ppc for a penalty charge of £80, itself contractually dubious, a judge may spank them severely.

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Sir_Roger_deLodger

Some good comments after the article.
As soon as I find out which car parks they are "policing", I will take great pleasure in proving them wrong!

esmerobbo

So one in the name of Micky Perky and one Looplotty?

HO87

Bring it on. I know where you live, or at least where Bromsgrove is.

bromsgrovebarry

I give up. I know when I am beaten. Thanks for the laugh.

HO87

:rotfl: Thanks guys - needed the boost after yet more cold turkey!

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

This bit was brilliant



Since when did anyone apart from councils and police have the right to do just this

Ive just noticed that they have now changed the piece so it doe not show double yellow lines.And access routes.

anyway fired off a letter

To Maria Scrivens

After reading your piece in the staffs university website i could not help but laugh. Could you please forward to me the contract law which quite clearly states that your company has the right to issue non enforceable tickets to anyone who you deem is parking illegally according to your rules?

And also why did you deem it necessary to change your original statement which included double yellow lines and access to something different? These pages are cached unless you can prove this was a mistake.

Also can you please prove to myself just why you think that your warning signs should carry the chequered motif of the police? You are not authorised by the police and i feel that these are scaremongering tactics to get unsuspecting members of the public to pay your extortionate fees which you claim in your press release to be cheaper then other companies yet are a lot higher.

Also I would appreciate it under the freedom of information act if you could give me the details of court cases that your company have won through perusing non payment of your alleged parking notices

Many thanks

I am out of the office until January 5. If your inquiry is urgent please call Sam Schofield on 01785 353401 or email press@staffs.ac.uk. The University is closed from December 24 at 2pm and reopens on January 4.
If you have an urgent inquiry during this time call me on 07766 520339.

Maria Scrivens
Senior Press Officer
Staffordshire University

Some numbers folks.. keep hold

HO87

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

Ive just noticed that they have now changed the piece so it doe not show double yellow lines.And access routes.

However, the This is Staffordshire article retains the detail:

Their prime targets will be drivers who park on double yellow lines, hog disabled parking bays when they are able-bodied, and block access routes.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

HO87 wrote: »

However, the This is Staffordshire article retains the detail:

Ahh yes sorry i thought i was still reading the original one and not the staffs uni one..

confused myslef in a lucid moment there :j