One Parking Solution warned by a Judge that they may face an application for a civil restraint order

MothballsWallet

Ralph-y said:

in some ways... I hope  that some all of them appeal so that it could progress to a higher  court ........

and

I am sure that this will be passed on to the nice people looking to put in to practise the newly ( OK not so new) passed legislation .

I am sure we will all find lots of bits to quote/ use but on first reading this is mine fav.... the sign contained 650 to 700 words many technical and that an average reader read 200 to 250 per min, taking 3 to 4 mins ...

so take that in the Eye BPA in your new 5 min grace period !

One of these reports every day or so would certainly help pass the lockdown time !

well done to all concerned

Ralph

So, the signage fails the Man on the Clapham Omnibus test then?

chelostar

Ralph-y said:

in some ways... I hope  that some all of them appeal so that it could progress to a higher  court ........

and

I am sure that this will be passed on to the nice people looking to put in to practise the newly ( OK not so new) passed legislation .

I am sure we will all find lots of bits to quote/ use but on first reading this is mine fav.... the sign contained 650 to 700 words many technical and that an average reader read 200 to 250 per min, taking 3 to 4 mins ...

so take that in the Eye BPA in your new 5 min grace period !

One of these reports every day or so would certainly help pass the lockdown time !

well done to all concerned

Ralph

Actually Ralph-y that bit had me laughing out loud. What also amuses me is the calculation of how much OPS hourly rate is, judging by what they were trying to charge me.  The very idea!

zhonguonuren

Crickey!  I am away from the board for the morning and miss something brilliant 😃 

henrik777

            

bargepole

I like this para. in the Judgment. Hits the nail squarely on the head:

Usually what happens in these kinds of cases is that the claimants appear by an advocate without their client, but beforehand they have asked for the issues to be determined on paper. Written evidence is filed and served, in the form of a standardised witness statement. On the other hand, defendants often appear in person and understandably come to the court in high dudgeon, although I am not casting any aspersions on the Defendant in this case who is an English Literature expert with aspirations for Shakespearian Theatre. Such defendants have frequently been plagued with intimidating letters from debt collectors threatening damage to the credit reputation if they fail to pay up. Such letters typically fail to connect with arguments put forward by defendants. So, it is not until the last minute that, understandably, a blunderbuss or scattergun approach is taken by the claimant in a “cut and paste” witness statement. This is calculated more to be in terrorem to defendants, than to assist the Court in the deciding what are by any standards quite intricate issues. Such scattergun witness statements are lengthy and frequently quote chunks of case law which are misleading or irrelevant.

ParkingMad

Here is a photo of the One Parking Solution sign, with the ParkingEye v Beavis sign to scale for comparison.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8op7umrntttf2t/Beavis and OPS signs.pdf?dl=0

D_P_Dance

Near rivetting stuff.  I wonder how long it took the judge to write that, how much it cost the taxpayer? Was it not this company that copped very large costs some years ago. bWere they not named in the Reading Apex Plaza entrapment scam?    

When a CC judge "invites" someone ti do something, what precisely does that mean?  

Le_Kirk

I noted that the judge made a lot of the grace periods in the BPA CoP, one assumes he was talking about the pre-January 2020 CoP, as, of course we now know that the BPA's response to criticism about grace periods was to reduce it to 5 minutes!  Presumably this judgment cannot be used/quoted in cases where grace periods fail the 10 minute minimum in/10 minute minimum out rule but pass the new Jan 2020 rule (I use rule even though they are nothing of the sort!).

ParkingMad

D_P_Dance said:

Was it not this company that copped very large costs some years ago. bWere they not named in the Reading Apex Plaza entrapment scam?    

Wasn't that OPC, Observices Parking Consultancy, TD?

chelostar

D_P_Dance said:

Near rivetting stuff.  I wonder how long it took the judge to write that, how much it cost the taxpayer? Was it not this company that copped very large costs some years ago. bWere they not named in the Reading Apex Plaza entrapment scam?    

When a CC judge "invites" someone ti do something, what precisely does that mean?  

I was wondering the same.  Does anyone know what that means - 'invited to report'?   You have to wonder how BPA were even allowed to reduce the grace period to 5 mins.  That is alarming.  I am considering complaining to the DVLA.