Shopping centre private car-park sent threatening letter invoicing for £3000

Calvinm

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Be careful, not all solicitors have experience of private parking issues, and might not give the best advice, despite best intentions.

NO they are not.

Yeah, we'll try to be as careful as possible. Do you have any advice when looking for a solicitor? We'll no doubt use our wits and explain, to the best of our knowledge, what the situation is and present all the evidence we have and if we don't get a sense that the solicitor knows exactly what they're talking about we'll find someone else.

We're thinking about drafting up a letter to respond to SCS, their email back just seems like a joke. I can't imagine the court would look favourably on CP Plus never replying to our online appeal (which WAS within the date), and them continually thinking that ADR isn't appropriate or possible and not giving us a POPLA number. As well as the signage not adhering to POFA 2012 and their abysmal 'evidence' that the driver was on-duty staff. In what world is "between 6-12 hour stays" unambiguous evidence that the driver was on-duty staff when we're talking about a public complex with shops, restaurants, and a cinema? Mind boggling.

Again, we'll definitely consult solicitors because we're still out of our depth for the most part. Hopefully we find someone with experience with private car parking companies, or perhaps someone we exact experience with CP Plus because this does seem to be a common problem.

beamerguy

Calvinm wrote: »

Again, we'll definitely consult solicitors because we're still out of our depth for the most part. Hopefully we find someone with experience with private car parking companies, or perhaps someone we exact experience with CP Plus because this does seem to be a common problem.

Suggest you read this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4835050/Parking-firm-took-lawyer-85-fine-lost.html

Of course, a barrister would be expensive but he could
point you in the right direction
Mr Bowen certainly does not like parking cowboys

https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/profile/nicholas-bowen-qc

If you don't ask, you don't get

Coupon-mad

Just don't reply if you get a pm offering to 'help' from someone with a lower post count than 4 figures. If you want legal advice, find a local solicitor which deals with consumer contract disputes who will give you 30 minutes free advice.

Personally I would steer clear of any firm claiming to specialise in motoring/fines because they will mainly deal with Police/speeding (real offences) which is a whole different ball game from contract law.