private parking fine. Driver does not need to be identified

Gixxer75

Hi, can anyone help please. TPS are on my back for some cash, they have sent me pics of my car etc. The driver is not identifiable on the pictures. Today i called TPS after reading the advice on this site. I told them to please identify the driver and there response was that they no longer have to, as legislation has now changed. The "fine" is the responsibility of the registered keeper. I then contacted the C.A.B. who also told me that the "contract" in this situation is between the enforcemant agency (tps) and the registered keeper. They do not have to identify the driver. Please can someone advise me on this. I am being threataned with court action, ccj's etc.
Thanks

peter_the_piper

Both wrong. CAB are just inefficient and the PPC is just plain lying, unless he has a time machine. The RK bit is from the new Freedom of Informtion Bill which is going through Parliament but is not likely to be law before 2012, if then.
They do not do court and no CCJ can be issued without the driver going to court, losing, and then refusing to pay what the judge says. All this is as likely as Elvis winning the lottery. Just ignore the lightweights from now on, they will threaten but its all bluster.
The law of "contract" has not been changed, the driver is involved in the contract and the RK cannot be held responsible for the actions of another.
We have a car owned by MIL, she does not drive now but there are 3 others who are legally entitled to drive it, it would not be her fault if one of the 3 was naughty, this only happens with real Fines.

Gixxer75

Thanks for that, i've cheered up a bit now!:j

Sir_Roger_deLodger

Gixxer75 wrote: »

Today i called TPS after reading the advice on this site.

Where on this site were you advised to call them?

As p-t-p says above, ignore from now on.

CAB are talking rubbish.

Gixxer75

No advice on here to actually call them, that was my doing. I'll ignore from now on.

esmerobbo

Were do CAB get their information from??? Even referring to them as an "enforcement agency" dozy gits!!!!

robredz

esmerobbo wrote: »

Were do CAB get their information from??? Even referring to them as an "enforcement agency" dozy gits!!!!

they have a system but it is seriously flawed as they are so politically correct and up themselves, that they believe PPC's basically play fair

notts_phil

CAB imho are useless doo gooders

trisontana

The CAB are very patchy in their work. For example they have been very pro-active in highlighting the way some shops have been using the "civil recovery" method of suing alleged shop-lifters in the civil court, even when the police have said there is no evidence that a crime has taken place. The sum of money demanded bear no relation to the actual loss suffered, and the "defendant" is bombarded by a stream of official-looking letters to try and scare them into paying up before it goes to court. Does that sound familiar?

As does this from a SRA press release:-

.....the issuing of such claims letters constituted ‘deceitful’, ‘unfair’ and ‘improper’ business practice, as defined by guidance on debt collection issued by the Office of Fair Trading.

AlexisV

TPS are lying and committing an offence by stating what they did.

Coblcris

Gixxer75, did you perchance record that call ?