Unfair parking charge (private company)

beckett1991

Yes I don’t believe I was blabbing about who was driving I genuinely felt and still do that it is an unfair charge and did not believe I should lie about not driving the vehicle

Redx

beckett1991 wrote: »

Yes I don’t believe I was blabbing about who was driving I genuinely felt and still do that it is an unfair charge and did not believe I should lie about not driving the vehicle

Fair enough

So tell it to a judge , if the judge agrees you will pay nothing and claim costs

Coupon-mad

beckett1991 wrote: »

Yes I don’t believe I was blabbing about who was driving I genuinely felt and still do that it is an unfair charge and did not believe I should lie about not driving the vehicle

Nor do we. We NEVER tell people to lie.

That is not the same as 'appealing as the registered keeper'. I agree with Redx:

In future , don't throw away your best legal point by blabbing about who was driving

You need to be aware of the scam that is private parking tickets and protect yourself by always appealing as registered keeper, NOT saying who was driving, and in fact not getting a PCN at all (protect yourself when leaving - cover your numberplate past the exit camera - perfectly legal as long as you swiftly remove the obstruction from the numberplate once round the corner on street, whre you must display it by law).

However, you will get a claim and you will have a defence as everyone does, at the very least the signage is always terrible and in your case the lines were ever worse. The POPLA decision was daft:

The appellant says they paid for a full day parking but received a PCN for not parking correctly in a bay. The appellant says there were clearly white lines showing and they have provided evidence to show this. Whilst I can see the appellants evidence shows very faint lines, the area the appellant parked is not boxed in the same as the other bays in the car park. There are no bay markings at the front or the back of the bay, the same as all the other bays in the car park. I am satisfied this is not a marked bay.

You don't get markings at the front & back of every bay in most car parks and no Judge will expect you to have inspected, compared and contrasted all the bays in the car park in order to decide whether the white lines you parked between constituted a 'real bay' or not!

There is a doctrine called contra proferentum and it is also reflected in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 about ambiguity. By law, ANY ambiguity in terms or notices (and lines on the ground are part of the terms and notices) MUST be interpreted in the way that most favours the consumer.

There is sufficient ambiguity in leaving old bay lines on tarmac, to interpret it as a bay.