Overstayed ticket due to dog being sick, can I win?

Masterofdisaster

I am the registered keeper of the car but was not the driver at the time the PCN was issued. As keeper I am the one who is being chased.
The driver had an incident where they returned to the car and the dog vomited in it, they cleaned the car and left the car park.
Two weeks later and a PCN comes through the post with a picture of my car leaving the car park twenty minutes after the ticket time. No image of the driver. ANPR in use linked to the ticket machine.
Do I have a case or should I just pay?

Masterofdisaster

I should add... I have ignored all letters, smart parking, debt recovery plus, I know there's not much point in appealing to them.
This morning I received my first letter from Gladstones solicitors and have just been reading the newbies threads and threads about Gladstones.

The_Deep

Nasty creatures dogs.

If it goes to court you had better pray that the judge is not a cat lover.

It is a scam industry and, as yuou were not the driver the PPC would have to jump through many many hoops to prove that you were liable under POFA.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.
for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the House of Commons recently

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41 recently.

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.



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Quentin

All you can do now (assuming you don't intend to pay) is continue ignoring everything except any lbcca or Court correspondence

If it comes to this then come back here for advice on how to defend this.

Ralph-y

I hope you don't mind me saying ......


you should after reading the newbies thread understand a little better what you should have done and now need to do ....;)


an appeal should have gone to the scammers and then won at POPLA



the only way to stop this now IMHO is a cancellation by the land owner / landlord .... where was this dastardly deed committed ?


please start to read up the court section of the newbies thread in readiness ...


get pictures of the signage , look up grace periods ......




Ralph:cool:

beamerguy

Masterofdisaster wrote: »

I should add... I have ignored all letters, smart parking, debt recovery plus, I know there's not much point in appealing to them.
This morning I received my first letter from Gladstones solicitors and have just been reading the newbies threads and threads about Gladstones.

They will not acknowledge about your dog.

What does the Gladstones letter say is it a LBA
or just asking you pay one of the debt collector scammers

Next time your dog is sick, wrap it up and send it too them
as proof

Masterofdisaster

Yes I'm aware now that I should have done something sooner, will wait until court papers arrive. The letter is just a scam letter demanding money and directing me to debt recovery plus.

Ralph-y

ok .... good .. so not at court stage just yet ...


so time to find out who to complain to ....


where was the car park?


Ralph:cool:

beamerguy

Masterofdisaster wrote: »

Yes I'm aware now that I should have done something sooner, will wait until court papers arrive. The letter is just a scam letter demanding money and directing me to debt recovery plus.

All part of the Gladstones scam. A Pinky and Perky special

Before court papers they must send you a letter before claim

Masterofdisaster

It was in Exeter, its a retail car park. I'll try to find out owner info and contact them. How successful is that likely to be?

beamerguy

Masterofdisaster wrote: »

It was in Exeter, its a retail car park. I'll try to find out owner info and contact them. How successful is that likely to be?

That is the best way to go, tell them you are a responsible
motorist who cleared up after the dog which took time and
did not leave it in the car park
Request it's cancelled