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Statute of limitation on parking fines? received letter quoting Parking Eye v Beavis

Hi There,

There is no information regards whether parking fines can be termed out of date and unenforceable.

I parked (coming back from dad's funeral) for a few hours overnight in welcome break car park.

Date 4/dec/2014

Parking eye sent letters, I replied offering 15 to cover their losses.

No reply until today. letter dated 4th dec (stating the Parking eye v Beavis case) I received the letter today (9th Dec ) from equita debt recovery.

Is this enforceable as its over/ exactly 12 months?

I assume lots of people are going to get letters now, like me, passing their debt to bailiff companies and quoting the new law??

Please advise

Comments

  • ManxRed
    ManxRed Posts: 3,530 Forumite
    As the charges are based on civil claims, the timeout is six years.
    Je Suis Cecil.
  • pappa_golf
    pappa_golf Posts: 8,895 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    is the nasty letter from a debt collecting Co called Equita? (edit: so it is)


    if so read this ,, https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5375943
    Save a Rachael

    buy a share in crapita
  • salmosalaris
    salmosalaris Posts: 967 Forumite
    edited 9 December 2015 at 3:09PM
    Contact Welcome Break , explain the situation re the funeral and ask them if they will call their packdogs off out of compassion . Explain you offered to pay any tariff that you didnt realise was necessary as understandably other things were on your mind . Parking Eye obviously would not accept it because they didn't even give you the courtesy of a reply
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