Can anyone help me with a parking fine QDR solicitors

Chreesh1212

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure what to do at the moment.

Basically this happened when I had just moved into my new apartment about 6 months ago and the incident occurred no more than a week after I had moved in. 

So with my apartment, as part of my rent I pay for a parking spot. The spot is a specific number which is linked to my apartment.

For my parking spot I have a parking permit. With my permit I wasnt given a sticky bit to attach to my windscreen so in the meantime I had it sitting on the dashboard on display.

On the day of the the incident, I popped up to my apartment to move some of my things in for a few hours and when I had came back down I had a parking fine.  Bare in mind this is a secure underground car park in which you need to have a buzzer to even get in to and the parking spot is linked to my apartment . With how windy it had been that day my permit had blew off the dashboard and on to the floor.

The parking company that manage my building despite me explaining this where having none of it.

I don't even have a key to my mailbox after all this time, so any letter that I get that gets pushed to the back I can't reach. I've just discovered all the these letters from QDR solicitors saying I owe £182 now or they're threatening me that the client might take it to court

Is there anything I can do or do I just have to pay this. 

Coupon-mad

Of course you don’t pay.

You don’t appear to have read any threads here yet and you need to put that right.  For example, a poster in a key fob residential car park has just done a typical update reporting that they (of course) won after a telephone court hearing today. Read it - no link given!

You also appear to have missed entirely the Announcement thread in capitals at the top of the forum ‘NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST’ where post #2 is all about how to deal with pre and post court letters and claims and how to win, including the misery of residential car parks with thug ex clampers ruining lives. 

Use a laptop not a phone to read this forum. Come back when you’ve read them and don’t ask for a link because my signature tells everyone where to click to get to page one.

Chreesh1212

Coupon-mad said:

Of course you don’t pay.

You don’t appear to have read any threads here yet and you need to put that right.  For example, a poster in a key fob residential car park has just done a typical update reporting that they (of course) won after a telephone court hearing today. Read it - no link given!

You also appear to have missed entirely the Announcement thread in capitals at the top of the forum ‘NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST’ where post #2 is all about how to deal with pre and post court letters and claims and how to win, including the misery of residential car parks with thug ex clampers ruining lives. 

Use a laptop not a phone to read this forum. Come back when you’ve read them and don’t ask for a link because my signature tells everyone where to click to get to page one.

Sorry just in a bit of a panic after seeing all these letters I'll have a read. I'm from Northern Ireland though and I can see you're signature says except Ni so does the way around it not apply to me? 

Redx

No keeper liability in northern Ireland , so no blabbing about who was driving

Which private parking company ?? The answer plus telling us you are in NI were crucial to any advice , yet you left them both out !!

Chreesh1212

Redx said:

No keeper liability in northern Ireland , so no blabbing about who was driving

Which private parking company ??

So still follow the steps in that post just I can't use the no keeper liability. Its a private parking company called APCOA Parking 

Redx

So Apcoa and Northern Ireland !!

Ignore them both for now

In the unlikely event that Apcoa issue a court claim in the future , come back to this thread and tell us

I won't be holding my breath

Half_way

Why are you displaying a permit to use what is essentially yours?
Do you need a permit to flush your lavatory after a certain time ? Or to cook food in the kitchen?

Chreesh1212

Sorry for leaving out that important info girlfriend has me panicked at the moment as she's worrying about it and says I should ring the parking company. 

Basically the latest letter from QDR States.

We are instructed by ZZPS limited on behalf of APCOA Parking. 

Payment is now long overdue. If the debt is not repaid in full within 14 days of the date of this letter, our client may consider County Court proceedings against you. If such a step is necessary, we will ask the court to order that you pay our clients legal costs. 

 And goes on more about stuff 

KeithP

And it's a debt collectors letter too.

Another good reason to follow Redx's advice.

Chreesh1212

KeithP said:

And it's a debt collectors letter too.

Another good reason to follow Redx's advice.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking. The only thing that's throwing me off is that my girlfriend read through the advice forum by coupon-mad and we are a little confused as I'm in Northern Ireland the process works as she said that advice is based on the laws in England 

Redx

She is correct , it's a different legal system in Scotland and in Northern Ireland , you have different laws

Do you even have any civil county courts in Northern Ireland ??

Here is the procedure from your government website

https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/publications/small-claims-forms

You definitely don't have the law named POFA !! So no keeper liability

Apcoa rarely try court in England and Wales ! , No chance in NI !!

There is more chance of Jeff Bezos and Wally Funk going to mars than of Apcoa trying this in a Court in Northern Ireland

Just file the paperwork , get on with your life !!