County Court Claim - help

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<THIS IS A REPOST FROM THE MOTORING SECTION - Thank you for all the helpful advice members have given me so far.>

I wondered if anyone could help me understand if I have a reasonable chance to defend a County Court case (breach of contract is the claim).

The CC Claim I have received and that I intend to defend involves my car (I am the keeper) when it was not being driven by me and I was not a passenger.

The private land parking claim against me relates to parking at a hospital in early August 2012, before Section 56 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 commenced effect on 1 October 2012.

There was a letter from Apcoa claiming £90 on 29/9/12 then two letters from both a solicitor and debt collector with very similar addresses in November 2012, then suddenly today a County Court Claim

I foolishly had ignored all the correspondence until today, not being aware of the change in the law and am temped (under pressure from my wife) to pay them to go away. Do the judges in the CCs still accept that there is no contract with the RK which can be breached unless the RK is the driver?

Thank you

Simon

neilmcl

Why are are reposting this here. As explained, it should be on the Parking sub-forum.

spacey2012

Knew this would happen when the BPA magazine reported Parking Eye had increased payment rates to 85% with using social media and forums to promote the negative sides of failing to pay the initial charge.

Johno100

spacey2012 wrote: »

Knew this would happen when the BPA magazine reported Parking Eye had increased payment rates to 85% with using social media and forums to promote the negative sides of failing to pay the initial charge.

If this was a glove puppet then you wouldn't think they would post a 'story' which would highlight that PoFA is not retrospective and the PPC therefore can't proceed by default against the RK for a ticket issued prior to October 2012.