Civil Enforcement Limited

wagssmith

I received a pcn from civil enforcement limited recently at Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine. I appealed and was rejected. Have decided not to pay has anyone else done this recently would love to hear the outcome.

trisontana

wagssmith wrote: »

I received a pcn from civil enforcement limited recently at Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine. I appealed and was rejected. Have decided not to pay has anyone else done this recently would love to hear the outcome.

If you had read some other threads on here you would have realised that hundreds of people have done the same and nothing has happened to them.

Coupon-mad

Loads of threads about ignoring these scumbags. You are in Scotland so there's no POPLA appeal to try, so ignore it all. Appealing was pointless.

wagssmith

Yeah I had already read some of the threads but they were mainly from people in England and have made up my mind not to pay anyway. Anyone else out there local been caught out too would like to hear your story.

prosnap

The whole private parking business relies on misrepresentation of authority. They are not the council, police or government, so they can't legally issue fines or penalties. All they have sent you is a civil invoice, which you have no legal obligation to pay or acknowledge.

Contacting them is generally a waste of time, their appeals process is worthless as it is not run by an impartial third party but rather by themselves so it's obviously within their interests to reject it.

Over 99.9% of the time they will not take you to court, because the more times they take people to court, and lose, the more chance that other members of the public get to hear that the invoices can be ignored. This would then lead to parking companies having no income because there would be no more gullible people left!

Taking people to court actually hurts their business ... Which is why they hardly ever try it.