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POPLA Decisions

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  • JS477
    JS477 Posts: 1,968 Forumite
    Just received an email from POPLA:-

    "Dear xxxxxxxx

    Thank you for submitting your parking charge Appeal to POPLA.

    An Appeal has been opened with the reference xxxxxxxxxx.

    Parking Eye Ltd have told us they do not wish to contest the Appeal. This means that your Appeal is successful and you do not need to pay the parking charge.

    Yours sincerely

    POPLA Team    "


    When I checked POPLA's appeal tracking website concerning this case the Withdrawal Reasons given was 'Client Request'.

    Does this mean that Parking Eye is the client or the owner of the car park site is the client? Is it possible to find out what the reason(s) were?

    However many thanks to all who encouraged me to see this appeal through and fight the "penalty charge".
  • Computersaysno
    Computersaysno Posts: 1,243 Forumite
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    PE are the 'client'.
    No...it'll be an email from PE saying '''Drop it.
  • JS477
    JS477 Posts: 1,968 Forumite
    Computersaysno wrote: »
    PE are the 'client'.
    No...it'll be an email from PE saying '''Drop it.

    Many thanks for the clarification. Given the reputation of PE I'm intrigued to know what their reason(s) were!! :)
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,363 Forumite
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    JS477 wrote: »
    Many thanks for the clarification. Given the reputation of PE I'm intrigued to know what their reason(s) were!! :)

    Did you actually make a complaint to any landowner/retailer asking that the charge be cancelled?

    Personally I wouldn't consider PE as being POPLA's 'client' any more than the appellant being POPLA's 'client'.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • JS477
    JS477 Posts: 1,968 Forumite
    Umkomaas wrote: »
    Did you actually make a complaint to any landowner/retailer asking that the charge be cancelled?

    No. I just followed the advice here; my main argument was that their signage wasn't as their friends at the BPA lays down in the Code of Practice.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,363 Forumite
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    JS477 wrote: »
    No. I just followed the advice here; my main argument was that their signage wasn't as their friends at the BPA lays down in the Code of Practice.

    Fair enough, and thanks for response - but 'client' is still strange term to refer to just one side in the appeals process.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Castle
    Castle Posts: 4,783 Forumite
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    If it was PE who cancelled I would have thought that POPLA would have said "Operator's request". "Client" sounds like PE's client.
  • JS477
    JS477 Posts: 1,968 Forumite
    If someone wins an appeal does it imply that the parking company has breached some part of the BPA code of practice assuming of course that they are a member?
  • Computersaysno
    Computersaysno Posts: 1,243 Forumite
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    JS477 wrote: »
    If someone wins an appeal does it imply that the parking company has breached some part of the BPA code of practice assuming of course that they are a member?


    No, not automatically.


    Eg...just because the PPC doesn't provide a copy of their contract with the landowner to POPLA and the appellant doesn't mean that they don't have a contract/authority [a breach of the BPA COP].
  • JS477
    JS477 Posts: 1,968 Forumite
    Computersaysno wrote: »
    No, not automatically.


    Eg...just because the PPC doesn't provide a copy of their contract with the landowner to POPLA and the appellant doesn't mean that they don't have a contract/authority [a breach of the BPA COP].

    Why would they do that, isn't it in their interest to in order for them to win the appeal?
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