help with parking eye fines - My Dad has dementia & has been binning them

Le_Kirk

If the car is in your Mum's name, i.e. she is the RK, what has happened that caused your Dad to be the defendant?

Torry_Quine

EMI - Elderly Mentally Infirm.

Jenni_D

Le_Kirk said:

If the car is in your Mum's name, i.e. she is the RK, what has happened that caused your Dad to be the defendant?

I can only assume that Mum has never even seen any of the letters as Dad has picked them up and binned them.

This is a tricky one and probably needs more-focussed help from @Coupon-mad and/or @ParkingMad

Enfys18

sorry for the confusion. The tickets happened when I took my Dad out shopping to Parc Prestatyn shopping park, with his mobility problems & dementia the shopping trip took a while & we went over the 3 hours free parking. I emailed Edison the owners of the shopping parc but had no response.I thought it was ok & we hadn't heard anything else (Dad binned any parking eye letters) 

Jenni_D

So your Dad binned any letters even though they were addressed to Mum?

Enfys18

Exactly, Mum had no idea till this arrived in the post yesterday   
He opens all the post. We live in a old post office/shop they used to run together. Think its time to buy a lockable post box. Its so sad

Umkomaas

I'd pay the Judgment - there's only £2 difference between that and the cost of a set aside application (which I think will be difficult to have granted).  Failing with a set aside application will mean the total cost of this is then £552 - very risky in my opinion. 

As an aside, for regulars, looks like PE have now jumped on the Osner gravy train!

Jenni_D

Umkomaas said:

As an aside, for regulars, looks like PE have now jumped on the Osner gravy train!

Indeed. And it's not as if they can plead ignorance re. the Beavis case. 🙄

Snakes_Belly

Umkomaas said:

I'd pay the Judgment - there's only £2 difference between that and the cost of a set aside application (which I think will be difficult to have granted).  Failing with a set aside application will mean the total cost of this is then £552 - very risky in my opinion. 

As an aside, for regulars, looks like PE have now jumped on the Osner gravy train!

I agree that you need to pay the Judgment. 

If you did decide to apply for set aside and it was granted the driver or keeper would still have to defend the claim. Given your father's illness your family may not want this extra stress. 

I would certainly write to your MP. Any claim involving a disabled badge holder should be treated as dealing with a vulnerable person with regard to debt collection.    

Castle

Umkomaas said:

I'd pay the Judgment - there's only £2 difference between that and the cost of a set aside application (which I think will be difficult to have granted).  Failing with a set aside application will mean the total cost of this is then £552 - very risky in my opinion. 

As an aside, for regulars, looks like PE have now jumped on the Osner gravy train!

I not sure that's true because the OP mentioned 2 PCN's in their first post which would suggest the £170 is made up of (2 x £85). The "costs" of £107 would have included the court issue fee of £35 and probably a solicitor fee of £50 which would only leave £22 unaccounted for.