G24 Parking dispute Unsuccessful

Autospaz

Umkomaas wrote: »

Do you literally mean this? Are you based in Scotland? Serious questions!

I am yes. Its actually 546 miles door to door. I over estimated.

Guys_Dad

Autospaz wrote: »

I am yes. Its actually 546 miles door to door. I over estimated.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I will leave the coup de grâce to Umkomas !!!!

Autospaz

Please elaborate....

Umkomaas

Autospaz wrote: »

I am yes. Its actually 546 miles door to door. I over estimated.

You're pretty much bombproof then from a Small Claims Court standpoint. Have a read about the cross-border situation. Yep, OK, here's a link!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/67449385#Comment_67449385

Also use the forum search facility, using the keyword 'jurisdiction' and that should bring up some other threads where there have been similar discussion. It will give you some peace of mind.

Use the Forum Jump to get back to page one and just above the sticky threads, on the right, is a heading along a line, next to forum tools, called 'search this forum'. Put your key word(s) in and change the default search to 'show posts'.

If you're feeling belligerent and you want, after doing some further reading and getting to understand this cross-border stuff, you could send a short and sweet 'appeal' to the IAS to the effect.

The driver is based in Scotland. I suggest you uphold this appeal to avoid your tame PPC getting totally out of their depth. If your PPC wishes to pursue this further, please advise them to attempt the issue of MCOL County Court papers via the Northampton County Court central distribution unit. Please make sure they clearly state to the court they are attempting to pursue a resident of Scotland.

If rejected you can pretty safely ignore anything further, although you may get bombarded by debt collector letters, which carry no weight whatsoever.

Others may wish to comment on this while you are looking at further info on cross-border difficulties for PPCs.

Umkomaas

Autospaz wrote: »

Please elaborate....

Give me time man! I'm going as fast as I can with one finger! :rotfl:

Autospaz

Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this and for making the effort to explain how the use the forum functions. It is much appreciated.

As is the advice regarding responding and for the advice on ignoring debt collectors.

I'm originally from south of the border and have only been in Scotland for 2 years. I was aware that the court system was different, as are the parking restrictions. I wasn't aware of the problem of jurisdiction though.

Once again, thanks for your time and effort.

Umkomaas

It would really help if, in due course, you could update us with progress (via this thread, rather than starting a new one - you can always find it, even if it's disappeared well down the forum, by clicking on your user name, click on 'statistics' and then on 'Find all posts by Autospaz'.

Would be particularly interested if you use my suggested IAS appeal and just how they responded to it.

All the best.

Autospaz

OK. Wilco.

ManxRed

Ah, Scotland! Terrific.

Autospaz

This morning I received a re-issue of the invoice this time addressed to me rather than the hire car company. I've re-issued the original claim and added the legal challenges to counter their rejection letter,which I will send to the IAS. I have also included a point about jurisdiction. I'll let you know how I got on.