Wrong VRN entered Brittania Parking

Shutts87

Needing some advice please.

I used a Brittania Car park last April.

I made the correct payment but I entered the wrong VRN. I used my wife’s car VRN, which I use frequently, rather than my own.

I knew I had made a payment so appealed. Didn’t get anywhere. Debt collectors etc.

I got a letter beige claim and at that point I made a subject access request. This gave me the proof that the machine logged my wife’s VRN and that the correct payment was made.

This escalated to court papers. I completed the online Mcol defence.

The current court fines/fee is £240. BW legal wrote to me outlining why they were pursuing, they attached photos of the signage stating ‘a full and valid VRN’ must be entered. They offered £160 as a without prejudice offer. I’m not accepting that!!!

I have ticked the box to agree to mediation before court.

I have found at least 2 cases so far that would provide case law, privateeye vs Heggie 2014 and Blessing-Burgess 2017. The later seeming to be exactly the same as my issue except there has been no offer from Brittanja of a nominal amount (e.g. £10 in that case) to cancel the PCN.

I would like to avoid going to court and would accept paying a small fee, less than £50, at the end of the day I did make a mistake but it is not fair or justifiable for it to be £160 or £240!

Do I have a case in court or would it be luck on the day with a judge?

Should I counter the £160 offer without prejudice?

Thanks in advance.

KeithP

Why have you started a second thread?

Please copy you above post as a reply onto your existing thread and then replace the text above with something like:

Duplicate thread - please ignore

whiskeytoothpaste

Where is the other thread for this- helping someone in the same situation

Umkomaas

whiskeytoothpaste wrote: »

Where is the other thread for this- helping someone in the same situation

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