Parking ticket bailiffs charged me £475 help please

peter_the_piper

astraea wrote: »

i dont have his name just a ppiece of paper with the firms name on and paid in full, no copy of a warrant, nothing. i realise i have been very stupid paying this but i was scared.

Not stupid. None of us know how we would behave until it happens to us.
Follow CM's advice about bailiffadvice etc they(bailiffs) have failed on a lot of points so she will be the very best person to ask. Well worth the tenner.
Wer'e all rooting for you.

Michael_Hampshire

A friend of mine who didn`t pay a parking fine/ticket actually had her car removed from the parking bay she uses beside her address.
A fee for I believe of over £700 was paid to PROSERVE to get the car back. She had a denial of access Notice in her front window.
This sounds like theft of the car to me, please what would be the best approach to get the unlawful charges back? Thank you so much.

Trebor16

Was this in relation to alleged "fines" owed to a private parking company?

maninthestreet

Get yourself over to bailiffadviceonline.

peter_the_piper

Michael_Hampshire wrote: »

A friend of mine who didn`t pay a parking fine/ticket actually had her car removed from the parking bay she uses beside her address.
A fee for I believe of over £700 was paid to PROSERVE to get the car back. She had a denial of access Notice in her front window.
This sounds like theft of the car to me, please what would be the best approach to get the unlawful charges back? Thank you so much.

More details please, was this a about a private ticket or a council one forgotten abut etc.

sgtbush

notts_phil wrote: »

They lied about the car being flagged by the police.

if they have levyed the car then the car no longer belongs to the debtor and belongs to the crown, if the car is sold or hidden from the crown then yes the car would be flagged and picked up by the police on anpr cos the car is stolen from the crown, the driver would also be arrested for interfierance of goods under the interfierance of goods act

sgtbush

and a couple of other points
its a council issed ticket as pointed out by the OP in 1st statement
the council will of sent you at least 3 reminders
the bailiff company will of sent by post at least 2
the fine is enforcable under the TMA act 2004
therefore its a ligit ticket, not a private parking scam ticket

if your disputing the ticket, have you gone the correct procedures on appeal??
if so, then tell bailiff company the ticket is in dispute and prove it by copys of letters. they will then go back to the council and say this ticket is in dispute, you shouldnt of instructed enforcement.
if you have not or just ignored the ticket/reminders then yes, they can demand payment in full or removal of goods.
but a better way is to try to get into an arrangement weekly/fortnightly or monthly.


what corrospandence have you had, in writing from the council?????

Trebor16

sgtbush wrote: »

if they have levyed the car then the car no longer belongs to the debtor and belongs to the crown, if the car is sold or hidden from the crown then yes the car would be flagged and picked up by the police on anpr cos the car is stolen from the crown, the driver would also be arrested for interfierance of goods under the interfierance of goods act

Assuming the car was seized as a result of non payment of a local authority PCN. If it was taken by a private company in a dispute over unpaid charges then such action is not legal.

sgtbush

Trebor16 wrote: »

Assuming the car was seized as a result of non payment of a local authority PCN. If it was taken by a private company in a dispute over unpaid charges then such action is not legal.

read the OP, the council have issued the ticket, not a private parking company

Trebor16

sgtbush wrote: »

read the OP, the council have issued the ticket, not a private parking company

Read the thread properly. I was responding to Michael Hampshire, not the OP.