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StellaDude
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There has been a posting on another forum that I am a member of about one of the members getting a parking ticket because he was 7 minutes over a recently reduced to 1 hour time limit at a shopping centre.
He said in his post ‘that I actually deserved getting that ticket, I was inexcusably over the revised time limit.’ He also said that were ‘many cars with yellow envelopes on their windows’.
I explained to him about ‘grace periods’ and don’t fund the scam and look at MSE to see your options.
He replied thanking me and explaining amongst other points
‘UKPC, along with others, have a simple policy: Their charge is £100, reduced to £60 if you pay within 14 days, the "discounted" sum not applying in the even that an appeal is made against the issue of the penalty. Therefore just the gesture of appealing costs £40, and as a lawyer, I consider my prospects of winning any appeal on the basis of fact to be infinitesimally low.
So he is a lawyer and he comes up with this cr*p – is there any hope?
How could he be put right?
He said in his post ‘that I actually deserved getting that ticket, I was inexcusably over the revised time limit.’ He also said that were ‘many cars with yellow envelopes on their windows’.
I explained to him about ‘grace periods’ and don’t fund the scam and look at MSE to see your options.
He replied thanking me and explaining amongst other points
‘UKPC, along with others, have a simple policy: Their charge is £100, reduced to £60 if you pay within 14 days, the "discounted" sum not applying in the even that an appeal is made against the issue of the penalty. Therefore just the gesture of appealing costs £40, and as a lawyer, I consider my prospects of winning any appeal on the basis of fact to be infinitesimally low.
So he is a lawyer and he comes up with this cr*p – is there any hope?
How could he be put right?
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he could employ the free services of the MSE forum regulars here and easily win at popla, thereby proving you right , him wrong and save money as well0
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You certainly wouldn't want him handling a divorce settlement if he caves in this easily! :eek:StellaDude wrote: »So he is a lawyer and he comes up with this cr*p – is there any hope?'People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.' Wizard's first rule © Terry Goodkind.0 -
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Why would a "lawyer" bother to post this? Just looks like a bit of PPC instigated propaganda.0
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Sounds even more fishy.StellaDude wrote: »His reason was that it was a warning to be careful at carparks (it is a motoring related forum).
Members of motor related forums don't need a "lawyer" to warn them to be careful when overstaying in carparks, or face a penalty - whether in a private car park or council type car park.
(Though this "lawyer" had a sound defence based on the grace period, which were he genuine should have been the point of his post, rather than his "advice" to save £40 and pay up to UKPC and any others his readers fall foul of!)0 -
He's obviously got more money than sense - and UKPC are now about to receive some of it!
A fool and his money are soon parted!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 Street0 -
StellaDude wrote: »I consider my prospects of winning any appeal on the basis of fact to be infinitesimally low.
So he is a lawyer and he comes up with this cr*p – is there any hope?
Tell him that right now PPC's are seeking a lawyer as their current ones fail them in court.
He might even get on well with a judge just like those before him ??
He sounds just the chap0 -
It would be tempting to get a ticket in that car park, and then show them step by step on how it was defeated.
The flip side of the coin are the stubborn ignorersFrom the Plain Language Commission:
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"0 -
StellaDude wrote: »His reason was that it was a warning to be careful at carparks (it is a motoring related forum).
Sounds like a parking firm employee. Madness.
We have around 99% success at POPLA.
Similar with court defences, very high success in seeing these off. More UKPC hearings have been won here than lost.
Ho hum...
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