Court chances when pending payment was never collected

Samsmith56

Hi.
My car was parked in a Euro Car Parks car park in London. It seems to comply with all regulations. The driver used Ringgo to pay for parking. The payment appeared immediately in their monzo app as successful payment. They did not receive a receipt.

A parking fine was issued. It turns out payment was authorised but never collected, so the bank refunded the amount.

The initial appeal was rejected due to no record of the driver paying. The car park owner refused to help after a complaint. I missed the POPLA deadline. I am now ignoring the letters from Debt Recovery Plus.

Please could anyone advise me of the chance of a sucessful outcome, if this does go to court, based on the fact that the payment was made but never collected by RingGo? I have confirmation in writing of the sucessful payment and authorisation code from my bank. If my chances are not really high, I'm tempted to just pay it and forget about it.

Thanks for any advice

Gr1pr

It probably wont go to a court hearing,  if that's what you mean   ?

Yes they may try a money claim using mcol, but they tend to discontinue before the hearing fee is due 

The driver or keeper tried to pay in full using the allowed methods, in good faith,  but it's well known that the machines and apps fail regularly,  yet they wont staff car parks in order to get a payment at the correct time, entry or exit

You have the proof of trying to pat, their problem not yours 

It would be foolish to pay them a penny,  we wouldn't 

Coupon-mad

Please could anyone advise me of the chance of a sucessful outcome, if this does go to court, based on the fact that the payment was made but never collected by RingGo? I have confirmation in writing of the sucessful payment and authorisation code from my bank.

As close to 100% win for you at a hearing as you could get. But there won't even be a hearing. Did you miss Umkomaas' discontinuances thread? They always discontinue.

Samsmith56

Ok, thanks for the resassurance. That thread is reassuring too! Will continue to ignore.

If It does go further am I right in thinking the cost (if I lose) can't go up much more for this single ticket? Also, am I right to assume everything will go through me (the keeper) - the court won't persue the driver at all?

Cheers again

Gr1pr

If you lost in court then a typical loss is around £212 in total 

The claimant will chase the party who they or their debt collectors or lawyers are writing to 

The court doesn't chase anybody 

Coupon-mad

Samsmith56 said:

Ok, thanks for the resassurance. That thread is reassuring too! Will continue to ignore.

Just don't ignore a claim form.

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