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£40 Parking Eye Ticket - CCJ Cost Couple Their Home

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  • rachaelfleur
    rachaelfleur Posts: 241 Forumite
    edited 12 September 2016 at 12:41AM
    I ignored a ticket from them and have since moved home. I'm now scared of what might happen! Should I contact them and pay up? I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot more than £40 though. Are the laws in Scotland the same regarding this?
    Do what you want because in the end people will judge you anyway.
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,246 Forumite
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    rachaelfleur wrote: »
    I ignored a ticket from them and have since moved home. I'm now scared of what might happen! Should I contact them and pay up? I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot more than £40 though. Are the laws in Scotland the same regarding this?

    Panic ye not!

    Search the forum for the word 'Scotland' and read the sticky thread 'NEWBIES -PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST' (which specifically mentions the protection you enjoy in Scotland). Of course you do not pay up.

    The fact the Daily Mail has picked up this new form of 'credit clamping' by private parking firms, can only be a good thing for CaseHub who should seize upon it:

    http://casehub.com/cases/parking-eye-ccj-fines

    Someone please post that link tomorrow in the Daily Mail comments, even though we know there will be a shedload of daft people saying 'well he should have paid the fine as he did the crime' (without actually reading that it wasn't, he'd sold the car...and of course it's not a crime or a fine!).
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
     Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • rachaelfleur
    rachaelfleur Posts: 241 Forumite
    Thank you, I did read the sticky post. Was just concerned that the law had changed up here. Phew.....
    Do what you want because in the end people will judge you anyway.
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Good old DM, I expect that the other redtops will now jump on the bandwagon.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Maybe its not fair to diss the DM, the more publicity this problem gets the more chance it will be sorted. Its not just forgetting to update dvla, although this is a regular problem on here.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,399 Forumite
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    Prankster has blogged on it:

    http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/couple-lose-home-from-parkingeye-ccj.html#comment-form

    Note to BG - snooze and you lose! :)
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • The_Slithy_Tove
    The_Slithy_Tove Posts: 4,097 Forumite
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    Time for everyone to start lobbying Sir Oliver Heald, Courts Minister, and making him aware exactly what the likes of BW Legal, MIL and others are up to, with some nice examples of the way the operate.
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,476 Forumite
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    I wonder what car park generated the original parking charge, and if they could have any come back against the car lark owner?
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • Ivor_Pecheque
    Ivor_Pecheque Posts: 745 Forumite
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    You can do a "soft" credit cheque via the MSE website.

    It claims to be able to highlight CCJ's.
    Illegitimi non carborundum:)
  • catfunt
    catfunt Posts: 624 Forumite
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    I hope the family in the Mail story will sue PE. IF they had backed down straight away and got the CCJ lifted when they were given evidence they were in the wrong, then ok. But they didn't. Completely unreasonable behaviour.

    Three of the stories are about Parking Eye. What a surprise.

    There must be legislation to deal with this now.
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