Parking Eye lose again in court

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Stroma wrote: »

So if this case goes for the defendants does it mean that those cases stayed actually get cancelled? Would it stop Parking Eye issuing claims in the courts where the stayed cases are?

Hard to say, whats going to happen.

ampersand

This David Altaras?

http://www.36bedfordrow.co.uk/people/33

HO87

You are correct.

salmosalaris

ampersand wrote: »

This David Altaras?

http://www.36bedfordrow.co.uk/people/33

And from the same chambers
http://www.36bedfordrow.co.uk/people/74

ampersand

Oh what fun!
Who'll be the next skittle @ 36, Bedford Row?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't see pe mentioned in the Roll of Honour:
In recent months, he has appeared in:

Redx

maybe its just me but I find it ridiculous that a small claim can result in barristers being present !

so you get cases where there are no lawyers present , cases where its a "green" legal eagle jobbing around and yet tomorrow its a barrister that costs more than the claims being sought and proves the bullies are these large firms abusing the small claims court system whereas the average joe bloggs could not afford one nor would they employ one

trisontana

I agree. Parking Eye are using the court system as a form of aggressive debt collection. That's not the original intention of the Small Claims Court. You can see how cynical the whole operation is by the news today that PCM UK dropped out of a court case when somebody stood up to them. The reason they gave was "It's not worth the costs associated with them attending and business costs"

So why they hell did they start the court case in the first place? Of course they were hoping the motorist would be scared by the thought of going to court and just cave in. Typical bully behaviour.

spacey2012

If tomorrows participants are up for some appealing if they lose, this could be the straw that breaks the camels back.
They don't need the judges permission to appeal if they have a valid point of case law to pursue which gets ignored as they often do in county court.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

What you need to remember is that the ethos of the small claims court is fairness to all parties so bringing a barrister along could well backfire as the judge will deliberately intervene to balance the argument.

Essentially, we've already seen the judges intervene, and tomorrow isn't the last of it as there are contempt of court hearings later in the year (June wasn't it?) where PE directors could actually be facing jail sentences. (Remember the toothbrush comment? That was telling the solicitor that if they didn't stop all the cases she'd be jailed for contempt. Judges have very wide sentencing powers over perjury and contempt, don't underestimate how much trouble PE are in in court). Google sword of truth...

HO87

Without being unduly cynical, its reasonable to conclude that the reason barristers are involved may be connected to the fact that PE issued over 700,000 invoices in their last financial year.

"Where there's muck there's brass" or is it "Where there's brass there's muck". Well, either way one or other of them.