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Channel 5: Britain's Parking Hell

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  • steve1500
    steve1500 Posts: 1,462 Forumite
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    Umkomaas wrote: »
    ..... assuming a windscreen ticket was attached to his vehicle, not a Notice to Keeper arriving in the post a couple of weeks later, followed by another one every day for the following 6 days. A bit too late for him!

    But I agree about the complacency.


    I thought it would be hands down win., they way they first portrayed it.

    It gave the impression that the PPC's could over ride the lease, which we know is wrong

    Barry B clearly missed he wasn't parking in his own bay

    Shame it didn't expand further on the QC's defence. Other than he one on a technical
    Private Parking Tickets - Make sure you put your Subject Access Request in after 25th May 2018 - It's free & ask for everything, don't forget the DVLA :D
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,744 Forumite
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    only to find out he hadn't even been parking in the correct space - totally undermining this case..
    Unless I missed it earlier in the piece, that bit of the jigsaw wasn't apparent to us until after he and BB walked out of the courtroom.
    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
  • Dean000000
    Dean000000 Posts: 612 Forumite
    Umkomaas wrote: »
    Unless I missed it earlier in the piece, that bit of the jigsaw wasn't apparent to us until after he and BB walked out of the courtroom.


    no you didn't miss it - I recon he even misled his own defence only for the company to be holding that ace...


    either that or the defect thought they chance it on the basis the parking company may not have had that in evidence.
  • roddydogs
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    The couple forced out of their house was their own fault, they didnt notify change of address, then just let things drift, total non story. And as for the plonker who had a permit but didnt display it!!!
  • peter_the_piper
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    I wonder how many of the ccj's were issued because the RK never updated their details with the DVLA. I'll bet that most of them hadn't so maybe a greater emphasis could have been given to this. Cut down on the number of uncontested cases.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • beamerguy
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    It was not all bad news.

    At least we were reminded of Mr Bowen, the barrister who took Parking Eye for £1500 :rotfl:
  • roddydogs
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    He only won his case cause PE mucked up, not because he was a brilliant barrister.
  • beamerguy
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    roddydogs wrote: »
    He only won his case cause PE mucked up, not because he was a brilliant barrister.

    Who cares ?? He got £1500 from Parking Eye
  • PasturesNew
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    99% of people don't park up thinking "heh, heh.... I'm going to cheat the system here and get away with it". They park in genuine innocence.

    If you parked wrongly/broke a rule then at most you should be charged for a full day's parking.... at MOST....

    To be perfectly honest - a lot of the time I simply don't go to places, I don't park, if I'm at all nervous or unsure that I am following the correct signs, doing the right thing.... I couldn't afford to "miss a sign in the rain/dark" or any other such nonsense....
  • Dean000000
    Dean000000 Posts: 612 Forumite
    I think this guy fell into that 1% - which is why I enjoyed it.
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