*Updated* SUCCESS against BW Legal/UK Parking Patrol Office Ltd

Le_Kirk

beamerguy said:

Rosa_Klebb said:

Snakes_Belly said:

How do they expect a litigant in person to fight their corner without taking some advice from the Internet? It is after all a small claim.

 moronic 

A lovely word that fits

...... along with the below

Rosa_Klebb said:

Exactly.  It is so mindlessly moronic and petty that they are prepared to talk all tough and take someone to court over a £100 parking disagreement.  That said when it comes to actually going to court, and when someone stands up to them, they bottle it!  What a pathetic bunch of Nancy's.

Jenni_D

That comment reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByLCoN8nEck

D_P_Dance

They have wasted a considerable amount of your time, consider wasting some of theirs, read this,

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/making-a-small-claim/

Rosa_Klebb

D_P_Dance said:

They have wasted a considerable amount of your time, consider wasting some of theirs, read this,

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/making-a-small-claim/

I am seriously thinking about it.  I let them know in a letter last year that since their claim was vexatious, with their own photos disproving their own case, that if they wished to continue, I would be charging them for any time spent dealing with it.  I might go ahead as by pursuing their doomed case, they agreed to my costs and time it would seem (implied contract).  There are many, many hours I have logged to deal with this.

Coupon-mad

I hope you’ve seen that the vital public Government Consultation is now open?

Please comment on the government consultation concerning parking charges and complain to your MP about the proposal to allow fake add on debt recovery costs.

Government Consultation re private parking charge levels, August 2021: PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS THREAD — MoneySavingExpert Forum

We are calling for everyone to do a full and robust response by email to the MHCLG, attaching evidence of what happened to you and what you think is wrong about £100 charges and fake debt recovery ‘fees’ that no PPC actually incurs or pays. 

We also need people to contact their MP to ask questions about why the MHCLG appear to have performed a U-turn on their March promise to cap parking charges, and why instead they propose to fund the race to court at £70 a time from victims

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/78517562/#Comment_78517562

To anyone reading this: PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU WANT CONSUMER VOICES TO OUTWEIGH THE PARKING INDUSTRY’S GREED. WHICH SEES THEM TRY TO CLAIM MORE THAN THE LAW ALLOWS, FROM A REGISTERED KEEPER,

I just looked at the POFA Explanatory Notes (part of the legislation):

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/notes/division/5/1/3/3

221.Paragraph 4 provides that the creditor has a right to recover unpaid parking charges from the keeper of the relevant vehicle if the conditions set out in paragraphs 5, 6, 11 and 12 are satisfied. The creditor is not obliged to pursue unpaid parking charges through this scheme and may seek to do so through other means but they may not use the scheme provided for here to secure double recovery of unpaid parking charges (paragraph 4(6)), nor will they have the right to pursue the keeper, as opposed to the driver, of the vehicle where they have sufficient details of the driver’s identity. The right to reclaim unpaid parking charges from the vehicle keeper does not apply in cases where the vehicle has been stolen before it was parked, (paragraphs 4(2) to (3)), or in certain circumstances where the vehicle in question was a hire vehicle (paragraph 4(7)). The creditor may not make a claim against the keeper of a vehicle for more than the amount of the unpaid parking related charges as they stood when the notice to the driver was issued (paragraph 4(5)).