APCOA, debt collector and QDR solicitors

Jim434

Thanks for above - I will ignore then and hope they p*ss off 

Jim434

Umkomaas said:

Jim434 said:

Umkomaas said:

posts saying this crowd should be ignored, there have been cases where a CCJ has been progressed

APCOA? Please find me one, just one.

Now who needs google? - you want to act the !!!!!! go and look yourself  

There's no need, I know, I've spent the last 7.5 years dealing with this stuff. 

But it was you who made the statement, 'posts saying this crowd should be ignored, there have been cases where a CCJ has been progressed', not me!  So evidently you seem to know more than me, that's why I asked you to show me.  Perfectly respectful request, no need for abusive posts.  Short fuses don't help anyone. 

Yes your ‘NI/google post was also perfectly respectful and very helpful I must add. Anyway I got there in the end so thanks for your input. 

Coupon-mad

APCOA are a PPC who never sue and they certainly won't try their first ever foray, in NI!

Jim434

Coupon-mad said:

APCOA are a PPC who never sue and they certainly won't try their first ever foray, in NI!

Thanks - I get a little anxious when I see solicitors and CCJ threats! 

Coupon-mad

We know, but did you notice none are about APCOA and next to none involve NI?

Jim434

Yes I seen that - I have read lots of people saying they got tickets but most are in railway stations etc and are in England.. I wasn’t sure about those notices issued in NI and in a hospital car park where APCOA have photos of the vehicle and their sign etc. 

Fruitcake

There is no keeper liability in NI. As long as the driver is never identified, the keeper cannot be held liable there. The best way to ensure the driver is never identified in NI is never to contact the scammers.
Sadly this does not apply in England and Wales, and now Scotland (although the law has changed there the mechanism to hold a keeper liable has yet to be writ).

Do complain, as keeper, to the landowner/PALS/hospital trust/manager and your MP about this unregulated scam.

Jim434

Fruitcake said:

There is no keeper liability in NI. As long as the driver is never identified, the keeper cannot be held liable there. The best way to ensure the driver is never identified in NI is never to contact the scammers.
Sadly this does not apply in England and Wales, and now Scotland (although the law has changed there the mechanism to hold a keeper liable has yet to be writ).

Do complain, as keeper, to the landowner and your MP about this unregulated scam.

If the law does change in NI as the rest of the UK, will they chase me for it? 

I will complain to the local healthcare trust and local MP

beamerguy

Jim434 said:

Fruitcake said:

There is no keeper liability in NI. As long as the driver is never identified, the keeper cannot be held liable there. The best way to ensure the driver is never identified in NI is never to contact the scammers.
Sadly this does not apply in England and Wales, and now Scotland (although the law has changed there the mechanism to hold a keeper liable has yet to be writ).

Do complain, as keeper, to the landowner and your MP about this unregulated scam.

If the law does change in NI as the rest of the UK, will they chase me for it? 

I will complain to the local healthcare trust and local MP

The date of the ticket is the law applied at the time. Future laws will apply from the date the new law is introduced

Fruitcake

I have never known a law to be applied retrospectively, but you never know where politicians are concerned. The more people who complain to their MPs about the scam the less likely (you would hope) a change in law would be enacted, but nearly 8 years after keeper liability was introduced in E + W, Scottish MPs sold Scottish motorists down the sewer by introducing it.
It's a ridiculous law where a person who may not have been in the vehicle at the time, perhaps in hospital, on holiday, or on a gap year, can be held liable by an unregulated scumpany.