PE Drop Court Case: Paperwork "Irregularities"

bargepole

ParkingEye had issued a court claim against a Ms Byrne (claim no. 3JD04522), and one of the helpers from Pepipoo assisted the OP with her defence.

PE were requested to provide evidence of landowner’s authority to levy parking charges and pursue non-payers to court, and they produced a Witness Statement signed by the managing agents, Colliers International.

We had seen various other copies of this same witness statement relating to other cases, and it seemed odd that the signature on each one was absolutely identical – if you laid one piece of paper on top of another, the signatures matched perfectly. However, the dates all seemed to be in different handwriting.

This led to the conclusion that Colliers had simply signed a blank form, and that PE had photocopied a stack of these, filling in the details to suit each case.

The OP contacted Colliers directly and confronted them with the evidence, and their representative said that they would have to speak to PE’s legal department as these were “serious allegations”.

A few days later, the OP received notification that the claim was now discontinued. Unsurprisingly perhaps, as one imagines that neither PE nor Colliers would want this apparently dubious practice publicly aired in a Court of Law.

I wonder if Mr Pindar of Capita knew what he was letting his company in for when they agreed to buy this lot?

Hovite_2

Would you mind if I used you post on the Aldi website ( edited of course ! ) to indicate what a bunch of conmen Aldi have got into bed with ?

bargepole

Hovite wrote: »

Would you mind if I used you post on the Aldi website ( edited of course ! ) to indicate what a bunch of conmen Aldi have got into bed with ?

Go for it.

Hovite_2

Done - thank you.

salmosalaris

I'd suggest anyone who has a witness statement in a claim checks as to its authenticity .

Parking-Prankster

If anyone would like to see the witness statements, they are here.

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/parkingeye-caught-out-using-post-dated.html

Guys_Dad

Parking-Prankster wrote: »

If anyone would like to see the witness statements, they are here.

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/parkingeye-caught-out-using-post-dated.html

What is not 100% clear is whether these witness statements that were signed by the same person were on behalf of one or more than one landowner/management company. If this was the case, then PE would be guilty of fraud and should they have used one of these statements in court, they would be in the deepest do-do.

4consumerrights

Yet more scandal for PE! Where will it end?

Of course a signed witness statement stating authority to act is NO substitution for the actual original contract between the landowner and parking company (assuming one exists) as terms and conditions and indeed the authority to pursue charges through the courts may vary considerably.

Coupon-mad

Needs bumping so others see this!

Everyone putting in a 'defence' to a PE Court claim must mention this cancelled claim (and the Walkden case too) as the reason why a PE witness statement is unacceptable as evidence.

trisontana

It would be interesting to hear zzzLazyDaisy's thoughts on this matter. Over on PePiPoo there is talk of perjury.

bargepole

trisontana wrote: »

It would be interesting to hear zzzLazyDaisy's thoughts on this matter. Over on PePiPoo there is talk of perjury.

Or maybe attempting to Pervert the Course of Justice? And we all know what happened to Chris Huhne and Vicky Price ...