Help! Euro car park fine vue cinema hamilton

gemlouise84

Hi. I really need some advice. After reading all the great threads about private car park fines i choose too ignore my fine, however my car is a private lease and received my first fine for £12 is there any way to get round this.
I actually appealed to euro car parks so they had my address although they dont know or can prove it was myself driving. It was a family day out at the vue cinema in hamilton and there was 3 cars in total each got £70 fine for oversaying 40 minutes. Totallt unjustified, my brother received notice to pay yeseday (with the threat of debt collector being informed) :(and i just hope that they send mine to my home addres rather than lease company.

Stroma

As you are in Scotland, totally ignore them, it's highly unlikely to go any further than junk mail. Make sure all three of you do the same. And it's good you appealed to get the lease company out of the loop on this.

surfboy1

Was this £12 "Fine " from the lease company?

Tilt

Sounds to me that the £12 is an 'admin charge' imposed by the lease co. It may be the case that it's in their T & Cs that they can do this for genuine speeding and parking tickets issued by either the police or an LA. What they don't account for is privately issued 'charge notices' which have no lawful authority. So the lease co have no reason or grounds to make their 'admin' charge.

gemlouise84

Thank you so much for the replies. I am going to phone lease company today and ask them about t&c and see if i can get £12 refund.just hope euro car park dont revert back to sending letters to lease company that would get tricky.

gemlouise84

Just spoke with my lease company and suprise they have just received notice to pay and paid it,not only have i paid 12 i now have to pay 70.
My lease company blackhorse.told me on phone as off october 2012 these private car park companies are legal and are now treated the same as fines fron councils and police. Im so confused...

ManxRed

gemlouise84 wrote: »

Just spoke with my lease company and suprise they have just received notice to pay and paid it,not only have i paid 12 i now have to pay 70.
My lease company blackhorse.told me on phone as off october 2012 these private car park companies are legal and are now treated the same as fines fron councils and police. Im so confused...

They are lying. See if you can get them to confirm that to you in writing.

You want to see their full Ts & Cs. Then let us know what it says in relation to Parking tickets and admin fees.

gemlouise84

Black horse terms and conditions are parking offences how clever. I am going to appeal through popla see if i can win.

pogofish

gemlouise84 wrote: »

My lease company blackhorse.told me on phone as off october 2012 these private car park companies are legal and are now treated the same as fines fron councils and police. Im so confused...

This is utter rubbish - The legal status of private tickets has not changed one bit!

nigelbb

gemlouise84 wrote: »

Black horse terms and conditions are parking offences how clever.

That's perfect as to quote Wikipedia

In law, an offence is a violation of the criminal law,an act considered as having caused harm to the public, as opposed to a civil wrong, causing harm to someone under civil law.

You have transgressed no criminal law so there was no reason for them to pay on your behalf as it's not in their T&Cs.

surfboy1

You have not commited any parking offences.
You need to complain to the lease company to get your money back.
If they have paid the PPC £70 then that is their problem, not yours, they should know better!