Claim Form from ParkingEye received 16/3/17

Umkomaas

Top advice, go for it @OP, you have absolutely nothing to lose.

Add to the letter that you will not be bound by any confidentiality clause.

Geoff1963

I remember someone alleging that they had received an e-mail, and showed a print-out ; but it was ruled inadmissible in court because fabricating it would be "trivially" simple. In the same way a parking company could claim that a vehicle had been parked on their land for a decade, by producing just two ANPR photos.
Proving that a person was somewhere else, doesn't prove their vehicle was somewhere else ; but in any case, I think the burden of proof should be on the parking company, to show the vehicle remained there throughout the period. That means continuous CCTV of the parking area / the entrance and exit.
Try this for a bad example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy_oP3ESQY

Umkomaas

That means continuous CCTV of the parking area / the entrance and exit

Would it?

You underestimate the capacity of the freshly spanked and brandied up Judge to get things spectacularly wrong!

grayselegy

Thanks Coupon-Mad. I shall take some of your advice but put it to seem a little more "reasonable". I just feel more comfortable that way. Yeah, I know, I'm a wuss, but it's my nature. So I shall tell them that I shall accept a full apology and the squashing of the charge in full immediately OR ELSE I shall do what you say. I'll update you when and if I hear. Can't believe the hearing isn't scheduled until October, so ages to get them to roll over yet! But thanks for the advice, you phrase it well.

grayselegy

V I C T O R Y ! ! !
I have today received a letter from Parking Eye, they have dropped the Court case and agreed they have no further claim on me.
Thanks to everyone who helped me in this, the paperwork was a long hard slog but I am duly vindicated and feel delighted they wasted their time and money too.
Really couldn't have done it without you, thanks so much.
So happy it's over and I didn't have to pay a penny (or take a day off work).

YYYYAAAAAYYYY !!!!

PS. So funny that they tried and tried to get me to pay something, anything, before finally giving in - I think the last letter suggested above was the clincher!!

Umkomaas

Well done. Did you get your £100 settlement from them? Did you send them the letter suggested by CM in post #41?

grayselegy

No, I wussed out and went for just dropping the claim and court case, so I'm happy with the result :-)

But yes, the letter suggested by CH did the trick. I'm sure I could have got the £100 if I'd asked but I just didn't want to push it.

Umkomaas

You're too easy to please. Here was a third party quite willing to demand a £100 from you, with associated threats. They'd quite happily take you to court and put you under enormous stress. Had you ignored their court claim they'd have happily applied for a default judgment and readily seen your credit rating trashed with dire consequences on your ability to raise any loan/mortgage; even affect some employment opportunities. They'd have done this without conscience.

And yet so many appear grateful to them for 'letting them off'.

Sorry excuse mini-rant. I'm glad it's out of your hair now. You probably won't want to do it but you have 6 years to pursue them for a breach of the DPA in accessing your data - but wait for some of the 'tracer' cases being pursued during the rest of this year before diving in headlong.

Coupon-mad

grayselegy wrote: »

V I C T O R Y ! ! !
I have today received a letter from Parking Eye, they have dropped the Court case and agreed they have no further claim on me.
Thanks to everyone who helped me in this, the paperwork was a long hard slog but I am duly vindicated and feel delighted they wasted their time and money too.
Really couldn't have done it without you, thanks so much.
So happy it's over and I didn't have to pay a penny (or take a day off work).

YYYYAAAAAYYYY !!!!

PS. So funny that they tried and tried to get me to pay something, anything, before finally giving in - I think the last letter suggested above was the clincher!!

Well done - I've only just seen this, better late than never!

Good to see it confirmed again that ParkingEye can be beaten at small claims, as we know.

:T:T