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Parking tickets & snow -can a warden clear the windscreen of snow ?
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bobthedambuilder wrote: »Surely parking in public places is regulated by the use of local byelaws. If you contravene the regulations contained in those byelaws you can be prosecuted and fined in a court. How is that not legal justice, i.e. retribution for an illegal act?
Nope Penalty Charge Notices are not issued for an illegal act, they are not enshrined in criminal law for the most part, it will never go to court if handled correctly, either by paying the penalty or appealing all the way through to the adjudicator. It will only go to court if it is ignored and not paid.Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0 -
Nope Penalty Charge Notices are not issued for an illegal act, they are not enshrined in criminal law for the most part, it will never go to court if handled correctly, either by paying the penalty or appealing all the way through to the adjudicator. It will only go to court if it is ignored and not paid.
Are you confusing illegal with criminal? I entirely agree with you that parking offences are not criminal acts, but surely they are illegal as they contravene laws, albeit byelaws. They are a breach of civil law (but not criminal law).A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.0 -
Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0 -
bobthedambuilder wrote: »Are you confusing illegal with criminal? I entirely agree with you that parking offences are not criminal acts, but surely they are illegal as they contravene laws, albeit byelaws. They are a breach of civil law (but not criminal law).
As a matter of semantics, something which is contrary to criminal law is lllegal. Something which is not contrary to criminal law, but which may create a liability under civil law, is unlawful.
Thus, where you contravene a parking regulation administered by a Council, you have behaved unlawfully; if you contravene parking regulations administered by the Police, you have behaved illegally; whilst if you infringe any "rule" laid down by a private parking company, you have done neither one.0 -
bobthedambuilder wrote: »Are you confusing illegal with criminal? I entirely agree with you that parking offences are not criminal acts, but surely they are illegal as they contravene laws, albeit byelaws. They are a breach of civil law (but not criminal law).
Nope, Penalty Charges are not a breach of byelaws. Just an alleged contravention as defined in a Traffic Order, a decriminalised statutory document.
That's why people correctly say that it is not 'illegal parking'.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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