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Smart, I shall keep an eye out nearer the time0
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Actually, just a quickie question.
From the 49 cases year. How many tickets went unpaid?0 -
what happened in October 2012?
Private clamping/towing became the CRIMINAL offence it always was - but the authorities finally realised it. And in the Protection of Freedoms Act the private parking comanies (called 'PPCs' on this forum as they are discussed so often) were 'allowed' to chase the registered keeper over a fake PCN if the don't know who the driver was. Still unenforceable twaddle, just means that in England/Wales, both the driver and the registered keeper can ignore it together now!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4360185
And the PPCs had to fund an independent appeal stage which is POPLA. Thread at the top of the forum about POPLA:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163
Happy reading of some other threads there if you want to learn more about the scammers known as PPCs.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
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Actually, just a quickie question.
From the 49 cases year. How many tickets went unpaid?
Don't know - because even the wins could have gone unpaid if the PPC just chose it as a show-trial to put on their website to scare people. E.g. if they chose cases where all the letters were coming back 'gone away' they'd know they could sneak a default small claim win out of it (but never get paid).PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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psimmons200 wrote: »I've just chucked an FOI request at the Crown Prosecution Service.
I'll post back as/when I hear further.
It's available on "What do they know" if you search CPS... unfortunately I can't post links as a new registration.
You have asked the wrong peopleFor everthing else there's mastercard.
For clampers there's Barclaycard.0 -
The cases to watch will be ones where they have claimed the POPLA fee as this gives them an actual invoice to put down on the table.Be happy...;)0
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Actually, just a quickie question.
From the 49 cases year. How many tickets went unpaid?
The PPCs won 24 of the 49 cases, so one would assume the losing defendants would have then paid up.
Defendants won the other 25, so there was nothing to pay.
I have been providing assistance, including Lay Representation at Court hearings (current score: won 57, lost 14), to defendants in parking cases for over 5 years. I have an LLB (Hons) degree, and have a Graduate Diploma in Civil Litigation from CILEx. However, any advice given on these forums by me is NOT formal legal advice, and I accept no liability for its accuracy.0 -
Yes, but I think the poster wants to know how many tickets went unpaid. I think we can only estimate this (unless anyone knows different), did someone arrive at a figure of 200,000-ish somewhere? 10%?Je Suis Cecil.0
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Yes, sorry. I wasn't very clear. Total unpaid PPC tickets for the year.
What Manxread said0 -
According to the BPA figures, and we know they never lie, there were 1.8 million private tickets issued in 2011, of which approx. 31% went unpaid, so that's about 550,000.Yes, sorry. I wasn't very clear. Total unpaid PPC tickets for the year. ..
As only 845 resulted in court claims, and only 49 of those actually reached court, you don't have to be Rachel Riley to work out the odds of anything happening if you ignore them.
I have been providing assistance, including Lay Representation at Court hearings (current score: won 57, lost 14), to defendants in parking cases for over 5 years. I have an LLB (Hons) degree, and have a Graduate Diploma in Civil Litigation from CILEx. However, any advice given on these forums by me is NOT formal legal advice, and I accept no liability for its accuracy.0
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