Parking stories in the News/media

Coupon-mad

ThisIsMoney:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10964525/Private-parking-firm-issued-charge-despite-fact-Id-paid.html

"I'm now 3-0 up against private parking firms and unfair charges, writes LEE BOYCE - here's my latest case of parking madness".

Jenni_D

Coupon-mad said:

ThisIsMoney:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10964525/Private-parking-firm-issued-charge-despite-fact-Id-paid.html

"I'm now 3-0 up against private parking firms and unfair charges, writes LEE BOYCE - here's my latest case of parking madness".

Other than using the wrong P word that's actually quite a good article as it covers the "don't identify the driver" angle.

1505grandad

Although there is mention of the DVLA involvement there is nothing about why the landowner is also allowing this rip-off on their behalf.

Jenni_D

Baby steps, Grandad, baby steps  

At least some key points are now making it into MSM articles.

Mouse007

How about one about Sennen Cove

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-year-long-battle-with-the-parking-profiteers

Jenni_D

Several well-known people mentioned therein.  

Coupon-mad

Ooh never seen that Spectator article before!

Mentions me, @bargepole and @Lamilad because the joyous BW Legal decided we were fair game to name in this article crowing about beating the defensively-doomed defendant, Mr Semark-Jullien:

https://www.bwlegal.co.uk/news/bw-legal-successfully-appeals-strike-out-orders-on-claims-incorporating-contractual-debt-recovery-costs-for-the-private-parking-industry/


They also outed me (well, one of us, they made it just vague enough) as being on the BSI Steering Group, despite the fact (due to a non-disclosure agreement) the wider industry were not allowed to even know that, let alone publicise my involvement, nor whinge about it publicly.

The forums did explain one thing which had confused me: why BW Legal pursued hopeless claims. The business model is that a parking company offers to enforce the parking rules for a landowner, often for free.

It takes the reputational risk as well as the income from the PCNs. It then uses a volume processor, like BW Legal, which has, by some accounts, a million claims on the go at any one time, to pursue everyone who doesn’t pay. Some do — the letters contain enough legal jargon to scare most people — and if they don’t, the worst result is losing the court fees for issuing proceedings, which is cheaper, in the end, than having someone with a legal qualification deciding whether it is worth pursuing.

You might think this was outsourcing the job of paralegal to Her Majesty’s courts — but, as we know, it’s only abuse of process if you know the claim’s inflated and unlawful.

Hmmm, how come we can all see this but the MoJ can't?

Mouse007

and a business model which needs disrupting

Mouse007

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/countless-tourists-preyed-on-armtrac-7275984

Jenni_D

Mouse007 said:

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/countless-tourists-preyed-on-armtrac-7275984

It was going so well ... until:

Threads have been started on TripAdvisor, Reddit and even Money Supermarket forums detailing the experiences of countless other victims.

🙄

At least it linked to the right place.