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ParkingEye - Rachel earns £1.5million per year (alleges The Prankster)

Umkomaas
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edited 26 June 2013 at 6:39AM in Parking tickets, fines & parking
Just posted this on Pepipoo.

Interesting bit of reading from the parking motorist's favourite hero:

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-much-do-parkingeye-pay-rachel-ledson.html
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
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  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
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    You have the wrong link
    http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-much-do-parkingeye-pay-rachel-ledson.html
    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.
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  • Dave_TH
    Dave_TH Posts: 183 Forumite
    Stroma wrote: »
    You have the wrong link
    http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-much-do-parkingeye-pay-rachel-ledson.html

    If she earns that much, even if she is a double bagger.....I love her, she can have my children...:iloveyou::iloveyou::iloveyou:
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,912 Forumite
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    Stroma wrote: »
    You have the wrong link
    http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-much-do-parkingeye-pay-rachel-ledson.html

    Don't know how that happened, copied and pasted exactly as in Pepipoo :)

    Thanks for spotting, sorry to anyone sent to a non-existent web page :doh:
    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
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    I don't think "earn" is the correct word, she may get paid it but nor earn it.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • bazster
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    I'm guessing she's on a salary of something like £25,000. It would be interesting to hear her try to justify the £50 costs to a judge.
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
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    She's not doing the claims though, so don't know how that works
    ParkingEye appoint LPC Law
    Date: 4th June 2013
    ParkingEye is pleased to announce that we have appointed nationwide law firm LPC Law to represent us at County Court hearings.

    http://www.parkingeye.co.uk/News
    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.
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  • bazster
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    So an LPC Law legal eagle (i.e. some bored trainee!) travels many miles to the court nominated by the defendant, sits through a hearing, and travels back again. So in most cases that's gonna be half-a-day, sometimes a full day. For £50!

    I'm very glad I don't have shares in LPC Law!
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Guys_Dad
    Guys_Dad Posts: 11,025 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    So an LPC Law legal eagle (i.e. some bored trainee!) travels many miles to the court nominated by the defendant, sits through a hearing, and travels back again. So in most cases that's gonna be half-a-day, sometimes a full day. For £50!

    I'm very glad I don't have shares in LPC Law!

    Clearly she can't do hundreds of personal appearances in court every month, so , taking into account appearances and cases that are settled without attendance, it's a nice little earner if enough are settled without an appearance..

    It is also the maximum that can be claimed, so maybe time to buy shares in LPC!
  • bazster
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    Guys_Dad wrote: »
    Clearly she can't do hundreds of personal appearances in court every month, so , taking into account appearances and cases that are settled without attendance, it's a nice little earner if enough are settled without an appearance..

    Not for LPC it isn't. Their role is clearly to attend court, so if the case is settled without a court hearing then there is no LPC involvement, but when they do attend court then there is no way the actual cost can be covered by the £50 maximum. Even if it's a no-show by the defendant the LPC grunt still has to travel to the court and then back again.

    Of course, it's quite possible that Parking Eye are paying LPC more than £50 for each appearance. I do hope so!
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Guys_Dad
    Guys_Dad Posts: 11,025 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    Not for LPC it isn't. Their role is clearly to attend court, so if the case is settled without a court hearing then there is no LPC involvement, but when they do attend court then there is no way the actual cost can be covered by the £50 maximum. Even if it's a no-show by the defendant the LPC grunt still has to travel to the court and then back again.

    Of course, it's quite possible that Parking Eye are paying LPC more than £50 for each appearance. I do hope so!

    That doesn't follow at all. LPC could be retained to prepare each case's court papers or to "pass" them, so to speak. A number of people pay up with the receipt of the papers and, of course, the PPC can withdraw after seeing the case from the motorist. If LPC were to receive a standard £50 per set of court papers, working on the swings and roundabouts, that would cover the relative few that went to court.

    All that, of course, is based upon the validity of the number of actual cases that reach court papers!!
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