Demand for unpaid parking charge - from 2013 - quoting Supreme Court Decision Nov 15

JenS

Hoping for some advice re 2 letters i received yesterday from Debt Recovery Plus. They're demanding payment for unpaid parking charges from Jan and Feb 2013 when i overstayed in a free car park in Watford. The letter quotes the Supreme Court decision 4th November 2015 and is now demanding payment.
When these parking charge notices were issued to me back in 2013 i just ignored all their letters based on advice from this board.
This letter suggests that in light of the Supreme Court decision i now need to pay these charges. I'm wondering if that's actually the case and does this decision impact on charges already issued, rather than apply to new charges only?
I can't find anything online - hoping someone here has some advice for me. Not sure whether i should just ignore these again.
Thanks !

Quentin

Doubt you were advised to ignore by this forum!

Too late now though. You should just ignore the recent correspondence.

Ignore everything that you get from debt collectors

But don't ignore any correspondence from a court.

They have 6 years to start court proceedings

pappa_golf

I just ignored all their letters based on advice from this board.


I must have missed those postings


anyway as you are now receiving "junk mail , perhaps a read of this thread might help




https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035663

Johno100

pappa_golf wrote: »

I just ignored all their letters based on advice from this board.

I must have missed those postings

You must have, I recall that the pre-POFA advice of ignore continued on this board well into early 2013 while the implications of the new legislation sunk in with many posters.

pappa_golf

many posters were stupid , and did not look at the facts


in fact one called "bill" ended up in court and was found guilty , we were shocked!

JenS

Johno100 wrote: »

You must have, I recall that the pre-POFA advice of ignore continued on this board well into early 2013 while the implications of the new legislation sunk in with many posters.[

Advice in early 2013 was absolutely to ignore parking charge notices from private car park firms. Which is exactly what i did and heard nothing again from them until this week.

JenS

My question essentially is then that in light of the supreme court decision in Nov 15 - are people obliged to now pay these fines?

Coupon-mad

Why not just read yesterday's exactly-the-same thread, or the dozens before that...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5401927

and this one:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035663

Please read the NEWBIES thread too, the sticky thread at the top of this forum asking newbies to 'PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST'.

You need to stop taking this stupid letter so seriously and read what's already here. With the best will in the World, we can't fit time in to say 'ignore' every hour of every day. That's why post #4 of the NEWBIES thread tells you about DRPlus letters and begs for no new threads.

One question is the only important one:

I don't care about DRPlus or Zenith letters but which PPC was it? (acronyms are all explained in post #2 of the NEWBIES thread).

pappa_golf

JenS wrote: »

My question essentially is then that in light of the supreme court decision in Nov 15 - are people obliged to now pay these fines?

does your case have the same aspects as the bevis case


was your incident in a car park that the PPC paid a fishing licence for?


etc , etc


you will see your question being asked on this forum and others 20 times a day , please do a search and read them

JenS

Ok guys - sorry if this has been asked - i searched and couldnt unpick the acronyms etc so thought i'd ask for advice. Seems to have !!!!ed everyone off.
Cheers.

Coupon-mad

Do read what we've pointed you to though! Be ready for Zenith letters, take a look at the threads and also you can search these on Google images with a keyword search like 'Zenith letters' or 'Debt Recovery Plus letters' to see the piles of letters people have posted pics of on t'internet, all ignored.

Which PPC was it? REALLY IMPORTANT.