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    • the claimant in their WS can refer to whatever previous CC judgements they like, as we do in our WS's, but CC judgements do not set a legal precedence. however, they do often refer to judgements like Bevis, those cases do created a precedence as they were court of appeal rulings. as for if the defendant, prior to the raising of a claim, dobbed themselves in as the driver in writing during any appeal to the PPC, i don't think we've seen one case whereby the claimant referred to such in their WS.. ?? but they certainly typically include said appeal letters in their exhibits. i certainly dont think it's a good idea to 'remind' them of such at the defence stage, even if the defendant did admit such in a written appeal. i would further go as far to say, that could be even more damaging to the whole case than a judge admonishing a defendant for not appealing to the PPC in the 1st place. it sort of blows the defendant out the water before the judge reads anything else. dx  
    • Hi LFI, Your knowledge in this area is greater than I could possibly hope to have and as such I appreciate your feedback. I'm not sure that I agree the reason why a barrister would say that, only to get new customers, I'm sure he must have had professional experience in this area that qualifies him to make that point. 🙂 In your point 1 you mention: 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver. I understand the point you are making but I was referring to when the keeper is also the driver and admits it later and only in this circumstance, but I understand what you are saying. I take on board the issues you raise in point 2. Is it possible that a PPC (claimant) could refer back to the case above as proof that the motorist should have appealed, like they refer back to other cases? Thanks once again for the feedback.
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    • Euro have got a lot wrong and have failed to comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4.  According to Section 13 after ECP have written to Arval they should then send a NTH to the Hirer  which they have done.This eliminates Arval from any further pursuit by ECP. When they wrote to your company they should have sent copies of everything that they asked Arval for. This is to prove that your company agree what happened on the day of the breach. If ECP then comply with the Act they are allowed to pursue the hirer. If they fail, to comply they cannot make the hirer pay. They can pursue until they are blue in the face but the Hirer is not lawfully required to pay them and if it went to Court ECP would lose. Your company could say who was driving but the only person that can be pursued is the Hirer, there does not appear to be an extension for a driver to be pursued. Even if there was, because ECP have failed miserably to comply with the Act  they still have no chance of winning in Court. Here are the relevant Hire sections from the Act below.
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hi,

i hope someone can give me some advice! back in october i had a parking charge notice placed on my car from w j parking. the fine was for £70 or £100 if i didnt pay within 2 weeks.i took the advice of this sight and ignored it, however i have now received a letter through the post saying that i own them £130. The interesting thing is on the back it says that if i wasnt the driver at the time of the 'offence' i need to name who was! the problem being is my car is a lease car. the lease company are great though and have said they wont pay it and will just forward any letters they get onto me. the other thing is the car is used for work and i am not the only person to drive it.i was all set to ignore this but i have become a bit worried now with this letter! there is something else to......havent w j parking gone into administration? if so, are they able to issue tickets? there is no mention of this on the letter, just that w j parking is a trading name for another company. should i carry on ignoring the letters or do you think i should send a response saying that i am not the regestered keeper, but am the higher of the vehicle, but wasnt the driver at the time of the 'alleged' offence? hope someone can help :confused: overandout.

 

can i also add that on the ticket they put the wrong street name.(they put the street next to it) does this make any difference?

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I am in a similar position with W J - and i continue to ignore their stupid, badly constructed (and probably illegal) documents despite my urge to take all of the best bits of info on here and go to town on them, but spring is coming and i have better things to do with my life.

 

It would be nice if one of the much more knowlegable people on here could create the "ultimate" letter - one that contains all of the relevant law etc and also included the cease and desist note, speak to the driver etc and a "if you contact me again it will cost you £100 in admin fees, writing to me, either yourself or someone associated with you, will be taken as absolute agreement to this contract" kind of thing with guidance that after say 2 letters you send this thing off and if you hear anything again you just send them a pro forma invoice and wait for you cash to come rolling in! after all they started it!

 

The Ignore route is not comfortable but stick with it, they will get bored

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Alleged incident happened last year so around 4 - 6 months, they sent letters to wrong place first (about 3) and now a couple home so think its coming to an end

 

I find it quite funny to count the number of times the letters contain things like, might, should, could, maybe like i could be lucky, i could win the lottery and maybe i will be a millionaire (all about as likely as their threats to come about). Would be even funnier if they had even put the right place down on the original ticket.

 

Keep the faith, keep very quiet and spread the word :-)

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you have no obligation whatsoever to tell any PPC who the driver was. WJ Parking are in receivership, if any current letters don't mention that fact then report this to Companies House (check the dates out on a company search on Company House website). Ignore WJP.

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Hi everyone...an update of my situation.:(

Yesterday I received another letter from CCS (who are acting on behalf of w j parking) stating they are now preparing legal papers. And that they have given me one last change to pay (quite sweet of them really) should I just keep ignoring? Or do you think a letter to CCS saying that the fine is in dispute? I would rather just keep ignoring.

 

Is anyone else having hassle off w j parking?

cheers overandout

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Keep ignoring !! it is the same people. see if you can count how many times they cover themselves with words like might, could .....

 

I have had the same so do not worry about it - and like me try to supress the urge to send them a letter telling them in how many ways they are getting stuff wrong

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Hi everyone...an update of my situation.:(

Yesterday I received another letter from CCS (who are acting on behalf of w j parking) stating they are now preparing legal papers. And that they have given me one last change to pay (quite sweet of them really) should I just keep ignoring? Or do you think a letter to CCS saying that the fine is in dispute? I would rather just keep ignoring.

 

Is anyone else having hassle off w j parking?

cheers overandout

 

Please do not worry. CCS can claim to 'prepare' what papers they like (its just another standard template letter). Thier basically getting desperate for your money so will use the threat of court option at this stage. You are nearly at the end of the line now :)

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Hi everyone...an update of my situation.:(

Yesterday I received another letter from CCS (who are acting on behalf of w j parking) stating they are now preparing legal papers. And that they have given me one last change to pay (quite sweet of them really) should I just keep ignoring? Or do you think a letter to CCS saying that the fine is in dispute? I would rather just keep ignoring.

 

Is anyone else having hassle off w j parking?

cheers overandout

 

It's all just more hot air from the PPC/DCA

 

TFT

09/07/09 :)Business Studies BA(Hons) 2:1:)

 

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Settled in full - 15/09/08

NatWest Student A/C bank charges - £260

Settled under hardship scheme - 08/06/09

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Settled in full as GOGW - 20/04/09

Santander Consumer Finance late payment fees - £60

Part settled for £48 - 01/03/08

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I am having dealings with WJ Parking and CCS as well.

 

I've had seven letters in total one threatening a 'home visit to secure payment'.

 

The most recent one was unintentionally hilarious. It came with a white envelope but clear in the middle so before opening I could read in massive capital letters in a yellow banner 'NOTICE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS!'

 

When I opened it underneath in small writing it had the disclaimer 'This is not a court document',

 

I ****ed myself laughing at their ineptitude. Then followed a few paragraphs telling me this was my absolute, final, never again to be offered, last chance to save myself yada yada and that I needed to respond by the 20th March at 10 am to prevent court action FINALLY going ahead.

 

Obviously today is the 20th, I have not paid, I have not contacted them so I guess I can expect another letter in a fortnight telling me my ABSOLUTE LAST CHANCE has been moved to the 18th of April at 8 am or something.

 

Complete clowns.

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The most recent one was unintentionally hilarious. It came with a white envelope but clear in the middle so before opening I could read in massive capital letters in a yellow banner 'NOTICE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS!'

 

When I opened it underneath in small writing it had the disclaimer 'This is not a court document'

 

I think that sums it all up!! Shocking! Lol :p

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I am having dealings with WJ Parking and CCS as well.

 

I've had seven letters in total one threatening a 'home visit to secure payment'.

 

The most recent one was unintentionally hilarious. It came with a white envelope but clear in the middle so before opening I could read in massive capital letters in a yellow banner 'NOTICE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS!'

 

When I opened it underneath in small writing it had the disclaimer 'This is not a court document',

 

I ****ed myself laughing at their ineptitude. Then followed a few paragraphs telling me this was my absolute, final, never again to be offered, last chance to save myself yada yada and that I needed to respond by the 20th March at 10 am to prevent court action FINALLY going ahead.

 

Obviously today is the 20th, I have not paid, I have not contacted them so I guess I can expect another letter in a fortnight telling me my ABSOLUTE LAST CHANCE has been moved to the 18th of April at 8 am or something.

 

Complete clowns.

 

kjaye you certainly have the right idea about PPC's - given the fact that you have already disregarded letters from them you would think their logic would suggest that you are unlikely to be rattled by an empty threat of civil court action. You may even receive a final final final final final final warning lol - such a generous bunch aren't they - they offer so many chances to pay their ludicrous [problem] invoices.

 

Keep up the good fight and keep laughing

 

TFT

09/07/09 :)Business Studies BA(Hons) 2:1:)

 

eCar Insurance overpayment - £325

Settled in full - 15/09/08

NatWest Student A/C bank charges - £260

Settled under hardship scheme - 08/06/09

Natwest Business A/C bank charges - £60

Settled in full as GOGW - 20/04/09

Santander Consumer Finance late payment fees - £60

Part settled for £48 - 01/03/08

Peugeot Finance late payment fees - £50

Settled in full before county court hearing - 01/09/09

Peugeot Finance overpayment of £247

Settled in full - 01/12/08

Valley Leisure - complaint about collections agent

£160 part refund of gym membership in compensation - 01/02/09

HFC Bank - complaint about payment deducted from my account on wrong date

GOGW £10 - 01/05/09

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And just to keep things complete - i have also recently had my yellow banner letter which is a notice of court proceedings - (not really we just want to make the paper look pretty) giving me my last ever, ever, no really it is, please believe us this time, last possible get out option for me to pay before the world ends (you get my sarchastic drift).

 

Wonder what will be on the next one i will ignore ........

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And just to keep things complete - i have also recently had my yellow banner letter which is a notice of court proceedings - (not really we just want to make the paper look pretty) giving me my last ever, ever, no really it is, please believe us this time, last possible get out option for me to pay before the world ends (you get my sarchastic drift).

 

Wonder what will be on the next one i will ignore ........

 

Lol Its the final, final, final stage then! This should be it for you now.:)

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hi everyone, just to update you. i have now received my 3rd latter from W J Parking, although this is from a company called CCS Collect. they are threatning a home visit within the next 72 hours, this is to agree payment and investigate my home situation prior to recommending court action. any views on this? should i just keep ignoring? this has been going on for 6 months now. could this start coming to an end soon. the longer it goes on the less worried i am getting as i know they will have to take me to court and win if they want money from me..!! has anyone else had a CCS letter? cheers overandout :D

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Investigate your home situation????? That is called tresspassing, invasion of privacy, harrassment, stupidity, annoyance, muppetry and outright comical genius all in one.

 

Just more BS from them. They cannot do anything at all. The VERY worse they can do is take you to court if they want to lose. IGNORE THEM 100%, laugh it off. They have no case, no chance and rumour has it no little pink thing either!:eek:

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Hi - see my post W J Parking - I had exactly the same letter yesterday to add to the growing pile. It has been suggested i phone them and make an appointment for them to come round and then when they do not come bill them for wasted time.

 

As this seems to be a consistant new letter maybe someone there has been on a typing course, maybe they have purchased a new ink refill for their printer, who knows what technological marvels they are now deploying :-). Maybe we should make a block booking to all see them at the same place and time, now that would be funny.

 

I so wish i had written a letter saying dont know what your on about but any further corresponance will be handled at a cost of £50 or so per letter and now send them bills, make up a credit company name and send threatening letters etc as i can also type, print etc so we are on a level standing - but alas the standard IGNORE is still the think being stated by those in the know so that is what i will do as makes no sense asking for advice and then ingoring it

 

you are not alone, and in some ways it is funny :-)

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hi everyone. just to update you on my parking ticket i had back in october 2008 from WJ Parking.

well they have sent me a total of 5 letters now. but i have ignored them all, and its now been a good few months and i havent heard a thing.

thanks for all the advice i got on here, it has really helped, and saved me a lot of money! kee up the good work.

and for anyone who has a private parking ticket..just ignore them. it worked for me!!

thanks again

overandout

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hi everyone. just to update you on my parking ticket i had back in october 2008 from WJ Parking.

well they have sent me a total of 5 letters now. but i have ignored them all, and its now been a good few months and i havent heard a thing.

thanks for all the advice i got on here, it has really helped, and saved me a lot of money! kee up the good work.

and for anyone who has a private parking ticket..just ignore them. it worked for me!!

thanks again

overandout

 

Well done. overandout

 

Im only just begining mine with UKPC.

 

Im gonna IGNORE all mine to.:lol:

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