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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. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which 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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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11443861

 

A London law firm has pledged to continue to target file sharers, despite controversy surrounding the acquisition and care of users' data.

 

Gallant Macmillan is to go to the High Court on 4 October to seek the personal details of hundreds of PlusNet users.

 

It will be interesting to hear what Chief Master Winegarten has to say about the application.

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It will be interesting to hear what Chief Master Winegarten has to say about the application.

 

Well..first of all you would of thought (or at least hope) that the ISP's involved (is it BT or O2) will question the whole process, many legal people believe that the Norwich Pharmacetical order is flawed right from the begining, it was a case many years ago that has no relevance to handing over of bulk personal data where it is very dubious that there is any wrong-doing.

 

It is clear that when ISP's have stood upto it (TalkTalk and Virgin) then they are not pursued any further, I'm sure there are now many people who believe that this is a stance that the other ISP's should of taken all along, instead of handing over our data willy-nilly and making money out of it !

 

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I really do hope he refuses the application, this cannot have escaped his attention, he must now realise even without any technical knowledge its nothing more than a legal [problem]. Is there a twitter feed I can follow as I'm away for most of next week and won't have pc access. I'm desperate to see what he has to say on monday.

Go for it CMW and show us mortals that British justice will not be hijacked to screw innocent members of the public.

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Having had a quick look through some of the emails (peeing myself laughing at some of them) I notice there's some attatchments from other solicitors where people have paid for a solicitor to deal with the letter. Hmmmm, I wonder if it's worth sending a message to these solicitors informing them that their private messages including personal details of their clients are now open for everyone to see!!

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Hmmmm, I wonder if it's worth sending a message to these solicitors informing them that their private messages including personal details of their clients are now open for everyone to see!!

 

 

Through the tears of laughter I couldn't help but notice that the ACS outward bound emails contain the following footer:

 

This e-mail is confidential and may well be legally privileged. If you

have received this mail in error, we put you on notice of its status,

please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this

message from your system.

 

Looks like I've a lot of emailing to do then.....:lol:

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Well..first of all you would of thought (or at least hope) that the ISP's involved (is it BT or O2) will question the whole process, many legal people believe that the Norwich Pharmacetical order is flawed right from the begining, it was a case many years ago that has no relevance to handing over of bulk personal data where it is very dubious that there is any wrong-doing.

 

It is clear that when ISP's have stood upto it (TalkTalk and Virgin) then they are not pursued any further, I'm sure there are now many people who believe that this is a stance that the other ISP's should of taken all along, instead of handing over our data willy-nilly and making money out of it !

 

Andy

 

Well said.

 

There's a very well informed blog on the matter here http://www.wiredvc.com/acslaw-159and-the-33norwich-pharmacal-orders/

 

We can only hope that the legal system wakes up and realises they've been duped, that would probably put this approach to bed once and for all.

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there web site is still down it's just not fare i wonder if i should ring him on his mobile to let him know

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Its over a week ago that Mr Crossley said that events of last week were nothing and that the company would carry on, as the site is now gone and no-one seems to be answering the phone that doesnt appear to be true.

 

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lol - thinking the same thing. hopefully still trawling through the leaked database !

My guess is that no new letters have been going out so no new ppl looking on here for help !

Although GM NPO hearing on Monday could change that. I suspect we wont get a decision on Monday tho.

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Great News !!

Got a letter today from GM saying in light of the info I have provided, they can confirm that they have closed their file on me.

I sent two LODs to them,the 1st was the template from on here and the 2nd was in my own words.

They also said "Due to the extent of this campaign, our phone lines have been very busy. We apologise if this caused you any inconvenience or distress"

"We would recommend that you ensure your internet connection is always secure in order to avoid any future unknown unlawful file sharing activity"

 

Hopefully this is the 1st sign of them backing down on the back of the ACS Law fiasco !!

Hope you all get a similar letter soon.

At last I can stop worrying about this !!

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I would of thought that any company would now find it very hard to continue this type of claim, mainly due to the adverse publicity, the fact that many ISP's are going to be more reluctant to handover info. and also that many people are now fully aware of how ACS operate and that they are aware of the vraious methods of defence.

 

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ICO is serious about fining bullying law firm

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) told The INQUIRER on Tuesday that it was already in discussions with ACS:Law and was considering what action to take against the bullying law firm, holding the option of fining the outfit up to £500,000. And it seems the ICO is not just blowing hot air to appease taxpayers.

 

Deputy information commissioner David Smith told The INQUIRER, "This will be a landmark moment in ensuring that firms take [data protection] seriously. There have been a lot of questions asked of us about whether we are actually going to fine firms, and I can assure people that we will be actively using this power."

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Some good stuff from thje inquirer site.

 

It's hard to see how Andrew Crossley and his apparently sole practicioner firm will manage to weather this storm, let alone show up in court asking for more data from ISPs following all this.

 

In some ways the ISPs are off the hook, at least for the moment, maybe. After all Sky was just complying a legally binding court order for information, it claims.

 

The question is, however, if ISPs would take a more aggressive stand against handing over personal data about their subscribers without solid proof of wrongdoing in the first place, might they stand better chances to avoid becoming mired such public relations disasters?

 

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Law firm poised to move into file sharing arena

Cramer Pelmont to act differently to ACS Law

A firm of London-based solicitors is considering moving into the illegal file-sharing arena, Which? Computing understands.

 

Cramer Pelmont Solicitors (Cramer Pelmont), which has offices in both central and north London, has confirmed that it intends to start work in this area.

 

However, it has said it will not be employing the same volume litigation model used by ACS: Law Solicitors (ACS Law).

http://www.which.co.uk/news/2010/09/law-firm-poised-to-move-into-file-sharing-arena-232072/

 

It is understood that although Cramer Pelmont says it has no intentions of adopting the same business model employed by ACS Law, it has employed Terence Tsang in a trainee solicitor position at the firm.

 

Terence Tsang has experience in the volume litigation file sharing arena, having worked for ACS Law as a paralegal, and at Davenport Lyons.

 

However, we have evidence to show Mr Tsang was still in contact with Andrew Crossley of ACS Law in August this year when Mr Tsang was apparently attempting to broker a deal between ACS Law and a new (IP) data supplier, in which it its understood he stood to earn up to 2.5 per cent commission for himself.

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have ACS ever written to anyone saying their case was closed ? Or do we all just hang on and hope ?

 

Yes they did, I would hang fire with the popping of the champagne corks.I think that if they send a couple of letters dropping the case, and let it be known (trolls) then it would scare those who dont recieve a letter, to basically panic into paying. Basic scare tactics. I would happily be proved wrong.But I dont think I will. :-x

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Some good stuff from thje inquirer site.

 

It's hard to see how Andrew Crossley and his apparently sole practicioner firm will manage to weather this storm, let alone show up in court asking for more data from ISPs following all this.

 

In some ways the ISPs are off the hook, at least for the moment, maybe. After all Sky was just complying a legally binding court order for information, it claims.

 

The question is, however, if ISPs would take a more aggressive stand against handing over personal data about their subscribers without solid proof of wrongdoing in the first place, might they stand better chances to avoid becoming mired such public relations disasters?

 

Andy

 

Well said andydd.

 

If the Information Commissioner doesn't hand out a hefty fine to Crossley for this data fiasco then the DPA won't be worth "diddly squat"

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Great News !!

Got a letter today from GM saying in light of the info I have provided, they can confirm that they have closed their file on me.

I sent two LODs to them,the 1st was the template from on here and the 2nd was in my own words.

They also said "Due to the extent of this campaign, our phone lines have been very busy. We apologise if this caused you any inconvenience or distress"

"We would recommend that you ensure your internet connection is always secure in order to avoid any future unknown unlawful file sharing activity"

 

Hopefully this is the 1st sign of them backing down on the back of the ACS Law fiasco !!

Hope you all get a similar letter soon.

At last I can stop worrying about this !!

 

Call me suspicious but your posting's are a bit iffey:|

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