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    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. Apparently there is a max 3 hours limit which we were not aware of. This means taking kids to softplay and then having a meal on one of the restaurants will more than likely take you over the limit. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR seems to be in public street that leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
    • honestly you sound like you work the claimant yes affixed dont appeal to anyone no cant be “argued either way”  
    • Because of the tsunami of cases we are having for this scam site, over the weekend I had a look at MET cases we have here stretching back to June 2014.  Yes, ten years. MET have not once had the guts to put a case in front of a judge. In about 5% of cases they have issued court papers in the hope that the motorist will be terrified of going to court and will give in.  However, when the motorist defended, it was MET who bottled it.  Every time.
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Hi LFI - thankyou. The hearing is for 15 mins. So do I just bring along ALL the stuff I have regarding this and/or do i have to take some form of defence also? And if so, is there anything suitable?

Many thanks

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Hi Lisaf,

 

Good luck for tomorrow and i will keep my fingers crossed.

 

Hopefullly someone will reply of what you need to take but i would of thought your defence paper would be good enough but one of the caggers may give better advice.

 

Good Luck

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Have the set aside hearing tomorrow - does anyone know what i should be taking with me?

Lisa

If you have an income and expenditure form and any proof of payment towards the debt it would be useful.

 

If you can produce a personal whitness statement to show the judge too that helps .

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Thanks Womble - but what defence do I take with me? Sorry but i'm so confuddled about what is required and what isn't as I originally thought it was just a hearing so that Howard cohen sols just had to produce the agreement, default etc.

 

Howmuchdebt - not sure why i would need to bring an income/exp as we are totally diputing that this actually existed. Also not too sure about the personal witness statement?

Many thanks for you replies

Lisax

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well each case is different we needed to make our own witness statement to show the judge,which included why we disputed the debt and what proof we had requested and wether any was given such as CCA request,or even one pending so it can at least give another court date and time for the creditor to respond to your request if you have made one.

 

If you have not acknowledged the debt and have paid nothing on it then this can be includedin the the statement it just makes it look like you have done your homework.

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Hi All,

 

right i have all my paperwork to/from howard cohen ready for the hearing today (well i say hearing but it's just for HC to produce the correct docs etc).

Now, some have said about taking a 'witness statement' along and a defence but i'm really unsure about what exactly both of these should say.

I've only got one more hour to prepare and need some advice pretty urgently if someone would be so kind - just don't want to mess up at this late stage!

Many many thanks in advance

Lisax

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The hearing is simply for the claimants to produce the documents request by the 'General form of judgement or order' issued by the court.

 

The claimants either provide them or not.

 

If the hearing moves further on to a legal discussion about the "provided paperwork", ask politely for an adjournment.

 

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Hi Guys,

sorry it's taken me so long to post up but what a day!:) Had the good fortune to have a great judge today!

HC sols didn't show even though as the case before was over running gave them an extra 15 minutes.

went in with my OH and was very very nervous as this was my first court 'appearance'.

Judge wanted a brief background of the account and went onto say that companies like GE money (OC) were in the habit of selling these debts on for piddling amounts (wasn't very impressed) and should have informed you etc that they were doing this.

He also asked how long OH had been together, how many kids etc! - is this normal? Didn't mind as he was very nice - lol.

Anyway, upshot was he granted the set-aside and charging order hearing! Something he wrote about costs but not too sure about that.

He did say that he expected howard cohen's to defend this all the way and expected to see us again but he said it will take them at least 3 months to produce these docs (don't know where he got that time scale from).

So all in all a really unexpectedly good day and i really though he might grant them more time.

So a huge thankyou to all of you that helped me get to this point, you have been no less than brilliant :D

Lisa x

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I am so pleased for you Lisa-well done. It is always a help when the Judge is sympathetic too.

I didn't want to build your hopes up before the case, but HC tend not to be too good at producing the relevant docs when required.

Not quite clear where you are at now-apart from being mightily relieved. Is the Charging Order now quashed? And what about the CCJ earlier-is that being removed too?

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Thankyou both so much. Sorry if i wasn't clear earlier! ccj and CO set aside so he said 'obviously don't need to see you march now'! But he did expect them to defend at some stage so he said he will probably see us again at some point.

I had to laugh at that as i'm back there regarding hsbc (and non compliance of a cca) in march anyway!

He did write something regarding costs but i'm assuming he will put todays events in writing to us anyway?

Lisa x

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You should receive notice of the set aside and the quashing of the charging order from the court......don't know if it will mention costs though.

 

I would apply for costs.........courtesy of x20

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/show-post/post-1701510.html

 

 

Get it done and send them to HC.

 

I doubt that HC would welcome going to court to discuss costs against a judge who they have hacked off by their non attendance.

 

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Congratulations lisaf, nice to hear some good news for a change, I can imagine the stress you must have been under, well done for sticking to your guns, now your over the first hurdle hope the rest will be accomplished with ease.

It's hard enough to get by day to day living a normal life without the unnecessary stress of going through through courtroom saga's, anyway good luck for the future,

 

Take care & God bless xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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