Britannia Parking - NTK sent in wrong name

darkwarrior wrote: »

Apologies if this has been answered, I did try searching to no avail. I know we need to look for faults in the NTK (no ticket, looks like it was ANPR), and it has been sent in the wrong name. Right surname but completely wrong first name (no one of that name exists here).

Is that a good start or not helpful at all?

Please check the vehicle's Registration Document (V5c).
Is the name of the Registered Keeper equally wrong there?

You now need to be reading the first post in the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread.

Send the already written blue text appeal that you will find there.

Send it without change - no additions or alterations necessary.

Send it as the keeper.

What is the alleged transgression?

It is the will of Parliament that these scammers be put out of business. Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers. Read this one which I wrote earlier

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.

darkwarrior wrote: »

Hi, I've received my obvious rejection. In my appeal, what grounds can I use regarding them using the incorrect name on the NTK? Thanks.

You could embed a copy of the V5C into your POPLA showing the correct name and argue they are chasing the wrong person, but you've dealt with the issue as there is no one else by that name at the address. They have issued a defective NtK, therefore they cannot hold you, as the keeper, liable for the charge.

Let's see how they handle that.

You add all the other appeal points as per the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #3.

Just looking back over the thread, there's no indication as to how 'wrong' the name was. Was it typo of your name (near enough), or is it totally different?

darkwarrior wrote: »

It's a name with the same initial, but not the same name. And a character shorter than the real name. Surname is correct though.

As in, by way of example, real name William, erroneous name Walter? Or is it much 'closer' than that