EDIT: CASE DISMISSED - BW Legal / P&PM Ltd

spacebuns

Inadequate and unreasonable time given to the driver to digest terms and obtain the required permit to park or leave the premises and find alternative arrangements to park. 

Le_Kirk

spacebuns said:

Can't deny it was nice listening to BW Legal's Advocate struggle for an hour to maintain their bungling, half baked and clumsy position against the Judge's short thrift shrift. 

Nice one - well done - and with costs, even better.  Anyone reading this, we do not recommend talking to the "other side" as they may try to get you to incriminate yourself (if that is possible in a civil case).  Also see correction above. 

spacebuns

Edit done, cheers!

Re talking to the other side, I couldn't help it and while it was quite illuminating, yes, be very careful with doing that.

BW's Lawyer did indeed mislead me while we were waiting, claiming they'd won their previous case (admitted afterwards she knew they were onto a loser with mine and I think maybe they'd lost the first case too), then went on to try and tell me my two main points were useless and I'd lose because of that. We had a polite and fun debate about stuff and she gleefully told me that in case law even 30 seconds parking was considered enough to constitute a breach so I was dead in the water by saying 7 minutes was unfair. She contacted the BW Legal Paralegal as we waited and offered me a last minute settlement of £180 which she pretended she wasn't in favour of, saying she thought we should just go in and be heard. All smoke and mirrors it transpired later.

After losing she argued with the judge about my loss of earnings because I was using my laptop while waiting the near 5 hours it took to be heard (10 - 2:45pm). She also argued about my childcare expenses but very generously pointed out that I'd underestimated my travel costs. I actually ended up worse off by £35 because of using my laptop while waiting for the hearing - the Judge accepted that I'd been working at that time and awarded £60 loss of earnings rather than the full £95, meaning the figure was applied only for my loss during the time the case was being heard in the courtroom, which was approximately 45 minutes.

After leaving the court she was chuckling away about how she'd tried to pull my pants down and con me into settling beforehand - all's fair in love and war I suppose...

Half_way

I think I may have had some issue at that point controlling my temper, and she would have received a severe verbal reaction using some words that would trip the swear filter on here.
And a follow up LBA for costs expenses and anything else