Made a mistake paying for parking

LastbutFast

Just realised as I got home that after visiting a managed car park that I have entered a number instead of a letter of my car registration when paying for parking. I guess I can look forward to receiving a fine notice now?

Umkomaas

LastbutFast wrote: »

Just realised as I got home that after visiting a managed car park that I have entered a number instead of a letter of my car registration when paying for parking. I guess I can look forward to receiving a fine notice now?

Prepare yourself for dealing with such an eventuality by reading the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1.

But both ATA's are telling their members not to pursue cases where there are single digit errors.

Guys_Dad

Was it a BPA PPC or an IAS? There are guidelines for BPA scammers that we can refer you to if it is clearly a simple transposition or slight keying error.

The_Deep

This is no big deal. Judges tend tp view such minor human errors as trifling, a waste of court time, and an abuse of process. caertainly not ea deliberate breach of contract which so damages the PPC as ti require that they be compensated t the tune of £100. Read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem become so widespread that MPs agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Hopefully, this will become law by Easter .

If they try it on get your MP involved.