Reclaim service launched

Half_way

If this proves to be successful will the money be clawed back from the parking company (agents ) such as Athena Smart parking, parking eye or from the car park owners such as Lidl, ASDA, ALDI?.

If the money is to be claimed form the parking companies then whats to stop them pheonixing into another company to avoid having to shell out?

Stroma

It would have to be all that is responsible for the parking company being there surely? So

Parking company
Landowner
Agent
Leaseholder


And so on

4consumerrights

Yes I agree with above two posts - joint and several claims against parking company and who engaged them.

The parking companies are consistently re-phoenixing in any case regardless of this occuring.

Stroma

Problem is if they Phoenix any claim can only be with the company involved at that time, so if a really insignificant one run by a moron turns from combined parking solutions ltd then into combined parking solutions 2013 ltd, you cannot make a claim on the latter company ran by the same moron

4consumerrights

May be not so - a company seeking dissolution appears in the Gazette - if anyone has a claim against the company they can seek to halt proceedings.

Also if a company dissolves a director cannot form another company of a similar name for 12 months (which probably means half the PPCs can be reported for this breach at some point or another in time)

Stroma

They can have a nominee director running a company, lots do it even the company I work for, they have a managing director running the company, but somebody else owns it

Umkomaas

Seems to me that it would be best to sue the principal to the contract.

Start hitting the likes of Aldi, Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury, The Range etc, etc, will have much more of an impactful strategic effect, by cutting off the lifeblood, rather than pursuing the PPC, who just might see coughing up for a few 'PPI-style' cases is nothing more than a minor tax on their business model.

Hit the principal and they'll soon realise they're in bed with the devil, and the sooner out, the better.

Half_way

Id pretty much agree with the above.
At the moment it appears that the supermarkets, car park owners etc see the PPCs as a solution to all their parking problems, even for those car park problems that didn't exist before the PPCs arrived.

When in fact the /PPCs are not the solution bu the problem, and those who are stupid/naive enough to let PPCs onto their land should be fully responsible for their actions.

If things do go down the PPI repayment road, then hopefully those affected will be able to visit the store in question to get their money back+a small amount of compensation+interest directly from the stores tills ( where applicable)

Welsh_Exile

Further to the above two posts - there is of course the agency which enables the PPCs to target people with their unjustified charges in the first place.
In other words what about including the DVLA in "reclaim" cases? If the charges are unlawful then there is no "reasonable cause" to release keepers' details to PPCs. Might be best to wait for a few wins before trying that but there must be the potential there for killing the whole scam off once and for all.

Parking-Prankster

If you tried to register but failed I have fixed a problem where the parking date could only be in the future and the default date is not not in 2016.


Not sure how this happened; some kind of publishing error on my part I think.


The date is stuck in mm/dd/yyyy format because that's all my US hosting site supports. Sorry. I have a dev request in to fix that.


Meanwhile I will be keeping quiet on exactly how it works until we start, for obvious reasons.