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Parking Ticket - TCP

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  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
    Uniform Washer
    tony6403 wrote: »
    But having not parked in accordance with the conditions you do, in no uncertain terms ,encourage people not to pay fines/penalties or whatever you choose to call them.

    You may very well be correct that people will not be pursued by these parasites - but I would not be so sure.
    If I know I should have paid and didn't I would pay the "fine".

    These made up rules are not in any way backed by statute. These parking companies don't even have the legal right to offer parking (hmrc v vcs) as they don't have propriety rights to the car park.

    As for being pursued for these fake tickets, fortunately I am sure that a vast majority are not pursued.

    Home office statistics

    1.8m tickets issued in 2011

    Freedom of information request to the courts on bpa aos members issuing claims

    845 claims
    49 before a judge
    25 for the driver
    24 fr the parking company

    You see where this is going ? 2012 is going to be even less claims due to the upper tax tribunal ruling by hmrc v vcs, which is binding on lower courts like the small claims. 2013 will be no different.
    When posting a parking issue on MSE do not reveal any information that may enable PPCs to identify you. They DO monitor the forum.
    We don't need the following to help you.
    Name, Address, PCN Number, Exact Date Of Incident, Date On Invoice, Reg Number, Vehicle Picture, The Time You Entered & Left Car Park, Or The Amount of Time You Overstayed.
    :beer: Anti Enforcement Hobbyist Member :beer:
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