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      Perfect. Nice and brief and to the point. You don't bother to start telling your life story. Just the way it should be. Send it off. You have probably done enough reading to understand that it won't make any difference don't start drafting your particulars of claim. Open an account with the MoneyClaim County Court system and start preparing. Post your particulars of claim here before you click it off. You may have noticed that at some point you will be asked if you want to go to mediation on this. We used to advise it but now we recommend that you decline mediation and go to trial. Your chances of success are much better than 95%. Going to trial will incur an additional hearing fee but of course you will get that back. However if you go to mediation, they will simply try to penny pinch and to get you to compromise and also they will sign you up to a confidentiality agreement and probably threaten you if you breach it. Not only that, if the mediation fails because you stand your ground, it will add additional delay while they then give you a date to go to trial. The best thing to do is to decline mediation – prepare for court hearing. Pay the extra fee. The chances are that rather than get a judgement against them they will then offer you a full settlement rather than go to court. If they do offer you full settlement then you will be obliged to accept it – but that's what you want. If they don't offer you full settlement then you will go to trial and there will be a judgement against them. Just so that you understand, our first interest is that you get your money back – but a close second is that it does go to trial and there is a judgement which we will then be able to use to help other people. Anyway as you should realise, we will help you all the way.
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      I sent a parcel to Singapore but i spelt the address incorrecltly by 1 letter so the parcel couldnt be delivered and was returned back to the Uk but checking the tracking today the parcel had returned to the UK but is somehow on its way back to Singapore as the tracking says "Item leaving the UK"    Ive spoken ( tweeted) Royal Mail help who confirm that the parcel seems to be going back to Singapore and that if its not " Delivered" by the 29th of April theyll deem it as lost and will accept a claim but i cant remeber when booking what the compensation amount was but i dont think it covers the amount of the item.  As it was my fault that it wasnt delivered in the first place can i trey and claim the full amount back ? i think if i remember correctly it was £50 compensation but the item was £170 So the timeline is thus ...   22nd Of March .    Booked via P2G & dropped off a Post Office.  25th March arrives in Singapore and goes through customs ect ect 26th   Incorrect address and item is flagged as "return to sender" 28th Item leaves Overseas intenational processing centre 15th of April , Item is leaving the Uk (Again)   ?    
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      One Parking Solutions Windscreen PCN - private flat bays, share of freehold . - Durrington, West Sussex.

      By lolerz · Posted

      Post the NTK up here for the regulars to double-check. I highly doubt it's compliant with POFA though. Ignore the deforestation that comes unless it's ever a letter of claim. Any luck with the organ grinder?
    • iamgnome
      One Parking Solutions Windscreen PCN - private flat bays, share of freehold . - Durrington, West Sussex.

      By iamgnome · Posted

      Probably the case @lookinforinfo Also an update, I've got the registered keeper letter. Just to check that I continue to ignore it until PAP letter comes in?

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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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Ok people, new to this but hoping I can get away with this one!

I received a ticket for parking in a place I have parked in for years at a football match.

The part of the 26 that effects e is 50cm the kerbs.

I was parked in a dead end street and was touching the end kerb.

It meant that the was 3 cars in a line, but it was a dead end street with bollards in front?

Does it have to be the side kerb that I am touching?

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its worth noting that the green jag also got a ticket...

 

Any ideas people... thanks

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Who issued the ticket... council or Private Parking Company?

 

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Looks like you were considered to be parked in the middle of the road (i.e. away from the kerb). I would imagine that you are supposed to be parked within 50cm of the kerb at either side of the road.

 

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Yeah.. So where do you draw the line?? So a dead end street that's go 5 or 6 houses at the end, no one can park in front of? That can't be right.

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Code 26! Within 50ft of a curb!

 

Yes sorry, I miss-read your original post. Its also 'not in a designated parking space'. BTW it's 50cms not 50 ft! :lol:

 

 

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Yeah.. So where do you draw the line?? So a dead end street that's go 5 or 6 houses at the end, no one can park in front of? That can't be right.

 

Well the offence is specific to London but you may as well appeal making you points and see what happens.

 

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Oh didn't know that. If I lose the appeal, could I pay the fine, then go small claim court against council. I'm so ****ed about this!

 

Well if you loose the appeal, there is still an opportunity to take it to PATAS. Obviously if you take it that far, you will loose any discount on the original PCN (assuming you loose of course). Taking the council to court after exhausting the appeal process is of course an option but it would involve a lot of expence with little chance of success.

 

Before you ask; http://www.patas.gov.uk/

 

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Cool, I will go to them next. I need photos of closes that have cars parking in at the end side. That will prove that it's Allowed! The end kerb surely however small is still a kerb, And the edge of a carriageway! Supposing I drove a smartcar? I could've parked that sideways where I parked? That would've been acceptable. Then again you could argue that the rules don't say a car must be parked sideways on the kerb... It's a flawed ticket

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Cool, I will go to them next. I need photos of closes that have cars parking in at the end side. That will prove that it's Allowed! The end kerb surely however small is still a kerb, And the edge of a carriageway! Supposing I drove a smartcar? I could've parked that sideways where I parked? That would've been acceptable. Then again you could argue that the rules don't say a car must be parked sideways on the kerb... It's a flawed ticket

 

Same rule would apply IMHO. It's the road side edge kerb that counts I think you will find.

 

 

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Its not just a London wide offence its in the TMA 2004 but thats beside the point. The actual contravention is parking more than 50cms from the edge of the carriageway there is no mention of kerbs in the statute. The was a key case at PATAS that stated a dead end was still the edge of the carriageway so there was in your case no contravention.

 

 

CARR V LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY

Case No. : 2070469651 PCN Number: HY24262670

 

Contravention:

Vehicle parked more than 50cm (or other specified distance) from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place

STATUTORY REGISTER ENTRY:

 

 

The Parking Attendant noted all the details of Miss Carr's vehicle and recorded that this Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) was fixed to the vehicle five minutes after it was first seen. The PCN alleged that the car was parked "more than 50cm from the kerb and not within a designated parking place". The Attendant drew a sketch in the pocketbook showing the position of the car.

Miss Carr challenged the PCN on the basis that her car had been parked in a dead-end street, where she said that residents and commercial tenants used the space at the end of the street as a parking place on a daily basis. She pointed out that her vehicle was not blocking any other vehicle, and that there were no yellow lines painted in the road or any notices prohibiting parking in that space.

The Council rejected her representations, stating that her vehicle was "double-parked outside 5A Fairfield Gardens", and that double-parking is a contravention which can be enforced at any time.

In her Notice of Appeal Miss Carr rejected the allegation that her car was double-parked. She produced a photograph which she said showed her car on the day the PCN was issued, with a diagram showing the position of the car relative to other vehicles and the edges of the road. In their Case Summary the Council stated, "It is a contravention under the London Local Authorities Act 2000 to park more than 50cm from the kerb", which they said was what the Parking Attendant had recorded occurred in this case.

Whilst this contravention is commonly referred to as "double-parking", that expression does not appear in Section 5 of the London Local Authorities Act 1995, as substituted by Section 6 of the London Local Authorities Act 2000. Nor, crucially, does the word "kerb". Section 5(2) of the 1995 Act prohibits the waiting of a vehicle where:

(a) the vehicle is on the carriageway of a road and wholly or partly within a special parking area; and

(b) no part of the vehicle is within 50 centimetres of the edge of the carriageway; and © the vehicle is not wholly within a designated parking place or any other part of a road in respect of which the waiting of vehicles is specifically authorised

Looking at both the Parking Attendant's sketch and Miss Carr's sketch and photograph, it is clear that her car was parked more than 50 centimetres from the "kerb", if that is taken to mean the edge of the footway on either side of the street. It is not possible to ascertain whether or not there is an actual kerb, i.e. made up of kerbstones, across the end of the road, but this does not matter, because what is clear is that the carriageway ends just in front of where Miss Carr's car was parked. That is to say that the carriageway in this road has three edges, rather than just the normal two along the footways.

Both sketches and the photograph show Miss Carr's vehicle parked at the end of the road. In the absence of specific evidence from the Parking Attendant as to how far the front of her car was from the edge of the carriageway at the end of the road I cannot be satisfied that no part of the vehicle was within 50 centimetres of the edge of the carriageway.

Accordingly I cannot be satisfied that a contravention of Section 5 of the 1995 Act occurred. I therefore must allow this appeal.

[it would appear that the Council have been misled by their own use of the expression "double-parking", and also by choosing to use the expression "parked more than 50cm from the kerb" in the PCN itself. The wording does not accord with the Standard PCN Codes agreed by London Councils, which correctly reproduces the words of the legislation: "Vehicle parked more than 50cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place".]

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