mother and toddler parking in disabled bay got ticket

wriggly

I don't disagree with the fundamental answer, but I note:

Coupon-mad wrote: »

In fact the retailer/service provider could be sued by a disabled person who was unable to use the service due to a lack of adjustments.

Very unlikely if the retailer has provision for disabled customers, but that provision is temporarily full.

Parents with kids do NOT actually need P&C bays, it's all a PR exercise. And, as I said, I have 4 kids, so I do know. You can use a normal bay!

This is a bit harsh. Safely getting young children and babies into and out of a car can require doors to be fully opened, and that can be difficult in a normal-sized parking bay. I do wonder about people with 10 year olds using them though.

Coupon-mad

A retailer was apparently forced to pay a hefty amount to a disabled person who was about to sue them for usually-full disabled bays. I say 'apparently' because I read it on CAG forums a couple of years ago and have no actual knowledge of the case. It's perfectly possible under the law.

Quite right too for the disabled person to pursue this in the right way, good on them for getting a settlement and the bay issue taken seriously!

A reasonable adustment such as provision of disabled bays has to be adequate otherwise it's just paying lip service to disability law. And the retailer has a duty to review these adjustments. If a service/retailer finds that disabled bay are nearly always full then it means they need more, simple answer (not assume like so many uninformed judgmental people do, that the bays are necessarily being abused by able bodied people!!).

But I know that's what some bright spark will think when thy read this, having not cottoned on to the fact that disabled people don't even need a Blue Badge legally to use these provisions...any more than they need a visible disability, wheelchair or whatever.

Bottom line is that disabled bays matter. Parent and Child bays don't.

big_daft_idiot

I have ignored all letters from UKCPS, and today received a Claim form ( County Court ) from Northampton County court, and this is nowhere near where this episode took place, any advice on the next steps, Thanks Guys,

BASFORDLAD

big_daft_idiot wrote: »

I have ignored all letters from UKCPS, and today received a Claim form ( County Court ) from Northampton County court, and this is nowhere near where this episode took place, any advice on the next steps, Thanks Guys,

Looks like Haswell is at it again

Northampton is just the processing centre.

You should register on pepipoo and post up the details of the claim on there minus the personal details.

With regards to the claim please reply on the court website (by logging in) advising that you will defend the claim in full and that you wish to apply for extra time(that gives you the full time to get the defence together plus any more info u may need from ukcps)

On pepipoo msg someone call Alexis who will help you compile all the information you need to defend the claim, or you can message him on here instead, his username on here is AlexisV,. watch out though for newbies offering help as it is likely to be Haswell trying to get info on (haswell is ukcps manager)

pogofish

Yup - get yourself over to Pepipoo - This will get sorted in no time!

BASFORDLAD

Big Daft Idiot just make sure you follow my advice and you wont go wrong, it really is important to get your extra time/acknowledge the claim first and get communicating with Alexis

muckybutt

BDI I second basfordlad, get in touch with Alexis....a bloke btw....not female as someone recently thought.

Half_way

The usual advice is to ignore everything unless your one of the rare people who get real court papers.

do not worry.
check they are real by logging in to money claim online, or contacting the court.
again do not worry or panic
next up be honest and tell the truth, dont try and hide behind feeble excuses such as prove i was driving ( unless of course you realy were not driving)
take advice form others on here, and else where, and read up on other cases that have gone to court - such as the dont forget your toothbrush case.

Next question, were all of the disabled parking spaces taken up? in other words by using a disabled bay did you stop someone else from using a disabled space?

peter_the_piper

Do not answer or converse offline with anyone who is not a long term member of either forum, anyone with a 1000 posts or more will be safe, it has been known for the ppc's to lurk on here and its wise to keep all the info between yourselves. We look forward to seeing you later when you post that you kicked his butt.

HardWorker2010_2

Looking forward to Hasbeen and Pie Eater Perky being added to this list:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/vexatious-litigants