Highview Parking Ltd/ Debt recovery plus

carolinef0000

NOTICE OF INTENDED LITIGATION... received from debt recovery plus for parking charges (highview) they state if i dont pay they will be applying for a county court judgement that may seriously affect my ability to obtain credit in the future, and that if it goes for a county court judgement the amount will increase-i have 7 days to respond....Any advice please?? thanks

ManxRed

No one can simply 'apply' for a court judgement. Unfortunately (for them) they have to go through all that rigmarole of actually taking you to court and winning.

As their case is useless and you'd win hands down, you can forget about them obtaining a judgement against you.

tospig

Everyone on this site has had these or similar letters from Debt Recovery Plus and happily ignored them. They are meaningless.

If it puts your mind at ease here are the ones I've received & ignored:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89511704@N03/8145428304/

Coupon-mad

carolinef0000 wrote: »

NOTICE OF INTENDED LITIGATION... received from debt recovery plus for parking charges (highview) they state if i dont pay they will be applying for a county court judgement that may seriously affect my ability to obtain credit in the future, and that if it goes for a county court judgement the amount will increase-i have 7 days to respond....Any advice please?? thanks

You do not even have a real parking ticket, it's just a piece of rubbish. You should just be playing snap with these template letters against the picture previews info on this forum.

Like all the other posters on this board, you have a fake PCN.

As long as it's not a company/hire/lease car (which I assume it's not as they sent the fake PCN to you) then you can just ignore it and ignore the other letters that will arrive. The letters are easy to ignore and laugh at, when they arrive at the address of someone who knows it's all hogwash and not a real parking ticket at all.

The whole scam of fake PCNs relies firstly on people's ignorance of the fact that a random private company can't fine anyone, and secondly on their natural fear of parking tickets and the escalating costs/bailiff scenario. So PPCs copy the look of a real parking ticket and - hey presto! - the cash rolls in from victims who know no better.

There is no fine, no CCJ, no bailiff, no debt, no effect on credit rating, no Court, no repercussions at all.

Tick off the threatening letters here.

Watchdog clip with expert Solicitor's opinion, using a fake PCN with nice photos of a car (like your fake PCN!) here.

Barrister's opinion - read the answer at the bottom, it's very clear! - here.

Simply choose to ignore and laugh at the scammer and their attempt to extort money. It's like deleting obvious phishing emails from your 'Bank'; it's a very similar con based on impersonation of authority. Now you have the pics in that first link you can play snap with each letter until the whole scam fizzles out.

tomba_2

Apart from not being "legally imposable" one other reason HighView Parking Ltd do NOT take people to Court is....they have outstanding summonses AGAINST them for non-payments!!!
I found this out when a couple of friends (one disabled) got threatening letters from them for staying more than 2 hours in Livingston Car Park. I advised them to ignore the threats after reading your posts and the "legalities" (or lack of them) in the so-called-Law they quoted (England and Wales only ???).

Triumph_T140

This act came into force on 1st October this year, does it have any bearing on the legality of the parking charges issued by highview at a telcos car park?

ManxRed

None whatsoever.

The_Slithy_Tove

Triumph_T140 wrote: »

This act came into force on 1st October this year, does it have any bearing on the legality of the parking charges issued by highview at a telcos car park?

Bit of a random thread to attach your unrelated question to.

There are hundreds of threads here relating to the POFA. Its relevance depends on lots of things, e.g. when did you park there, is it in England or Wales. Not that it makes any difference to anything. Any charge notices from private companies have exactly the same legal standing that they did before, that is to say they are all pretty-much unenforceable. Nothing has changed in that respect.