Gladstone solicitors ltd parking charge

Coupon-mad

But that doesn't help show the date a photo was taken on a phone, does it?

LDast

It takes the embedded metadata date and time from the actual photo. The user can adjust that data if they wish but as a default it is the original date and time. In the iOS version, the style/colour/font of the timestamp can be adjusted.

The paid for version allows other metadata such as GPS location and other enhancements.

I just picked a random photo and date stamped it and it shows the correct date and time;



Here is the actual metadata:

tallac

Just thought I'd come back to update after the court hearing:

• Neither the claimant nor their legal respresentative was present.
• Judge said on the basis that the claimant did not have permission to issue a parking charge for the area they did and given the total time parked was less than 4 minutes, the judge dismissed the case.
• Took all of about 5 minutes for the judge to say that, they didn't ask me to present anything or give any other information. He did ask if I wanted to cover anything else of which I politely requested if we could look at the costs assessment.
• Of the costs I submitted, he awarded majority of the costs which amounted to £180 in expenses (travel expenses and loss of earnings) + £180 for compensation costs (10 hours of preparation at £18 per hour).
• Judge made the point that 10 hours of preparation was reasonable amount and £18 per hour was an appropriate rate.
• In total, the judge awarded £360 in costs to the defendent (payable from the claimant).

A huge thanks to everyone who has helped on the forums and with the all the material. It took a lot of time to fight this but I'm glad it's all done. Wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of the kind people on here.

Waiting for summary and conclusion paperwork to come through the post.

Any instructions on the steps required on the process to get the money awarded from the claimant?

Coupon-mad

Woohoo! Nice costs award for unreasonable conduct!  WELL DONE. Which Court?

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

1505grandad

Congratulations  -  nice amount of costs too  -  is this still relevant?:-

" look forward to a satisfactory outcome for your father  -  good luck."

Gr1pr

tallac said:

Just thought I'd come back to update after the court hearing:

• In total, the judge awarded £360 in costs to the defendent (payable from the claimant).

Any instructions on the steps required on the process to get the money awarded from the claimant?

Details on enforcement are on MCOL, but wait until the deadline has passed, typically 30 days, so maybe email them after say 40 days with a 7 or 14 days deadline to pay in full, but be guided by MCOL and don't be too impatient 

Your first contact would be their lawyers if they used one , Gladstone's was mentioned. ( Although the claimant was NPM , IPC AOS member  )

Warrant of control is the ultimate sanction AFAIK 

But well done in beating the parasites 

tallac

Coupon-mad said:

Which Court?

Northampton County Court

Gr1pr said:

Details on enforcement are on MCOL, but wait until the deadline has passed, typically 30 days, so maybe email them after say 40 days with a 7 or 14 days deadline to pay in full, but be guided by MCOL and don't be too impatient 

Your first contact would be their lawyers if they used one , Gladstone's was mentioned. ( Although the claimant was NPM , IPC AOS member  )

Warrant of control is the ultimate sanction AFAIK 

But well done in beating the parasites 

Thank you, I'll take a look at MCOL and go with what you say as well as MCOL.

Thank you again to everyone for their help.

tallac

A couple of weeks after the court case, my father received an email from the parking company's solicitors to request the bank account details to send payment. Email was received at 6pm and the deadline for the information was 12pm the next day. They said if the deadline is missed then they will send the payment out via cheque. Unfortunately, due to the very short deadline, my father did not get a chance to reply to the email before the deadline. However, no cheque has been received in the post.

Is this another trick of theirs to claim to have given an opportunity for bank transfer and then claiming the cheque is lost in post?

Given the situation, what is the best course of action:

1. Contact the solicitors to explain the cheque has not been received
2. or wait for the deadline and file a MCOL?

Coupon-mad

Clearly 1. 

tallac

Is there a historic pattern with Gladstone/parking company being slippery with the court costs payout?