Is this place near to you? I ask for two reasons. If you can easily go back, then get photos of the signs. On GM and Parkopedia there are various comments about the signs being pants. Also go back to the school uniform shop and ask the manager there for contact details for the retail park (which I've Googled & Googled and got nowhere). The school uniform shop will just be tenants of the retail park, they won't be able to do anything. It will be the retail park that called EPC in, and we've seen loads of cases where the organ grinder has intervened and called off the monkey. As for EPC, aye, ignore them until LoC stage.

Sadly - no. They would have sued you because they reckoned you owed them the money they have invoiced you for. The judge would have considered the matter and included you didn't owe the money. That's all.

I doubt very much that a parking company will allow "on behalf of" appeals and he may have clicked on something saying he was the driver. I did ask upthread - Euro Car Parks aren't very litigious and it is likely that the threats will eventually peter out. However, are you all happy with an 18-year-old being hassled and, if the matter ever did by some horror get to court, probably being considered a liar by the judge for saying he was the driver when he wasn't? It is of course up to the people concerned how to deal with this. I think it would be a hell of a lot better if the hirer manned up and contacted ECP and removed your brother form the loop.

Rereading it won't be £265 solicitors' costs. It will be £35 claim fee + £25 hearing fee + £205 solicitors' costs. Solicitors costs are supposed to be capped at £50, the only way they can be more is if you were found to have acted unreasonably. If that is how the case has panned out then you have been very, very unlucky and the judgement is truly horrific.

How the hell are there £265 solicitors' costs?!

On Parkopedia and on Google Maps the maximum period is shown as two and a half hours. But that originally the limit was three hours.

You left the PCN number showing, but no worries, I've redacted it. Euro Car parks are very well known to us. I've just skimmed through the titles of the latest 100 cases we have with them (I gave up after 100) and, despite all their bluster and threats, in not one have they taken the Cagger to court. You stayed there for 2 hours &:45 minutes. I'm guessing the limit is 2 hours and 30 minutes, right?

Any update here? I ask as ECP are hassling a new Cagger at this site.

Thanks for filling in the sticky so quickly - we wish everyone would do that! More in a mo.

The N180 is just a standard form, instructions on how to fill it in are on any claim form thread.

It is extremely disappointing that you haven't told us anything about the result of the hearing. You came here at the very last minute and the regulars - all unpaid volunteers - sweated blood trying to get an acceptable Witness Statement prepared in an extremely short time. The least you could have done is tell us how the hearing went, information invaluable for future users. Evidently not.

A victory is a victory Bertie. Well done!

Indeed. It's them that will have to take you to court if they ever want to see any money. They know full well how difficult it is for the private parking companies to win residential cases,.

The MO of these companies is not exactly sophisticated. Send the invoice. After X days send a reminder saying the amount is now £100. After X days send a final demand. After X days get a DCA to send a letter pretending the amount is now £170. After X days get a DCA to send another letter with another threat. After X days get a third-rate solicitor to send a letter with yet another threat. After X days send a Letter of Claim. Or some variant of the above. Ridicule them now if you want but they will just continue with their bi-monthly (or similar) letters. It only really makes sense to contact them after a Letter of Claim, which is the stage before court, to let them know that if they proceed you will be big trouble for them and will make a big hole in their wallet.