Arval UK - Paid PCN and now want me to pay them

ColliesCarer

surfboy1 wrote: »

The fines manager is assuming a lot in this statement isn't he?
"....will have been acting on behalf of the landowner ... signage which will set out the conditions of which the driver ...... by payment of the appropriate paid parking tariff or by parking within a limited stay period or similar, and that a Parking Charge will be payable....

Not only are his assumptions the three grounds most appeals are won on - No Authority, Non-compliant signage and not a GPEOL - but there seems to be a worrying assumption of guilt and even in actual PENALTY Charge Notices there is the right to be shown the evidence and appeal.

For example I helped a neighbour sort out an actual Penalty notice he received for allegedly parking in a disabled parking area on a street in Newisham. We live almost 200 miles from there and he was a pensioner recovering from knee replacement surgery at the time. He had received papers from Northhampton threatening court action by the time I got involved - any way turns out when I finally got Newisham to send the evidence - the photographs were of a completely different vehicle but the reg was almost the same except whoever had made out the ticket had transposed some of the digits. e.g. KY55 123 and KY55 132.

What if they paid this on the OP's behalf?

The legal beagles may be able to help out here but is'nt there something about contracts cannot override your statutory rights?