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    • Thank you for posting up the results from the sar. The PCN is not compliant with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4. Under Section 9 [2][a] they are supposed to specify the parking time. the photographs show your car in motion both entering and leaving the car park thus not parking. If you have to do a Witness Statement later should they finally take you to Court you will have to continue to state that even though you stayed there for several hours in a small car park and the difference between the ANPR times and the actual parking period may only be a matter of a few minutes  nevertheless the CEL have failed to comply with the Act by failing to specify the parking period. However it looks as if your appeal revealed you were the driver the deficient PCN will not help you as the driver. I suspect that it may have been an appeal from the pub that meant that CEL offered you partly a way out  by allowing you to claim you had made an error in registering your vehicle reg. number . This enabled them to reduce the charge to £20 despite them acknowledging that you hadn't registered at all. We have not seen the signs in the car park yet so we do not what is said on them and all the signs say the same thing. It would be unusual for a pub to have  a Permit Holders Only sign which may discourage casual motorists from stopping there. But if that is the sign then as it prohibits any one who doesn't have a permit, then it cannot form a contract with motorists though it may depend on how the signs are worded.
    • Defence and Counterclaim Claim number XXX Claimant Civil Enforcement Limited Defendant XXXXXXXXXXXXX   How much of the claim do you dispute? I dispute the full amount claimed as shown on the claim form.   Do you dispute this claim because you have already paid it? No, for other reasons.   Defence 1. The Defendant is the recorded keeper of XXXXXXX 2. It is denied that the Defendant entered into a contract with the Claimant. 3. As held by the Upper Tax Tribunal in Vehicle Control Services Limited v HMRC [2012] UKUT 129 (TCC), any contract requires offer and acceptance. The Claimant was simply contracted by the landowner to provide car-park management services and is not capable of entering into a contract with the Defendant on its own account, as the car park is owned by and the terms of entry set by the landowner. Accordingly, it is denied that the Claimant has authority to bring this claim. 4. In any case it is denied that the Defendant broke the terms of a contract with the Claimant. 5. The Claimant is attempting double recovery by adding an additional sum not included in the original offer. 6. In a further abuse of the legal process the Claimant is claiming £50 legal representative's costs, even though they have no legal representative. 7. The Particulars of Claim is denied in its entirety. It is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief at all.   Signed I am the Defendant - I believe that the facts stated in this form are true XXXXXXXXXXX 01/05/2024   Defendant's date of birth XXXXXXXXXX   Address to which notices about this claim can be sent to you  
    • pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’.  Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time.  You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID.  You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.<<**IMPORTANT**  then log in to the bulk court Website .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website .get a CPR 31:14 request running to the solicitors https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?486334-CPR-31.14-Request-to-use-on-receipt-of-a-PPC-(-Private-Land-Parking-Court-Claim type your name ONLY no need to sign anything .you DO NOT await the return of paperwork. you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform.
    • well post it here as a text in a the msg reply half of it is blanked out. dx  
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i have a parking ticket sent to me in the post by UKPC for parking in catford island retail park.There was a sign clearly stating that there was two hours free parking .. my son parked for 15 mins and the car is registered to his father. There was no parking ticket place on my car the only thing i heard about it was a letter from UKPC stating i owed £90.

Then a very strongly worded letter from Debt Recovery Plus stating it is a legal requiremnt to send notice of intended litigation... i was not the driver only the owner and i have a photo of the sign at the premises that clearly states i my vehicle was allowed to pqark for 2 hours...and it stayed for 15 mins !! what to do and what letter to use???:-x:-x

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do nowt, nil, nadda

 

and what letter to use???

Not worth bothering with. It's been found on CAG over time that the PPCs don't even bother to read whatever letter you send them. To be honest, I think we are still awaiting evidence that anyone in the PPCs can actually read.

 

 

 

Ignore them completely

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You will probably get a few letters from them, the "debt Collection agency" on the next desk and possibly even get one from the "solicitors" (that's the tea-monkey).

Ignore them all!

Eventually they will give up and hound someone who is not so wise.

 

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Just confirm i should ignore them and not even bother send them a letter to tell them that i was not driving???Can they pursue this in the court or send baliff as they threatened??? firstly i did not get a ticket on the car..secondly i was not driving... thirdly it stated that parking could be for 2 hours free the car was there for 15 mins!!! and finally shall i bother telling them this or really just ignore them with no repercussions???

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yeah you can ignore it... as said here you're going to get all sorts of letters.. Its not a debt so they can't do anything to your credit file or give you a CCJ as it has to go to court first. They are well aware that you may not be the driver so they are just trying it on.

 

It is the first thing a court would ask and it would be thrown out on those grounds!

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If you admit you are the driver, then you are admitting that you breached the terms of the supposed contract... this is usually a flaw in the whole [problem] because they send the ticket to the registered keeper who is not necessarly the driver! By admitting in a letter you are the driver it seems to give the PPCs a bit of encouragement to take things further!

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Just confirm i should ignore them and not even bother send them a letter to tell them that i was not driving???

 

No, a complete waste of your time and money.

 

Can they pursue this in the court

 

Yes, but they won't

 

or send baliff as they threatened???

 

To get to the baliff stage, they first have to take you to court (see above). Then they have to win:lol::lol::lol:

Then you have to fail to pay the judgement, then and only then they apply for enforcement and the bailiff gets involved.

 

firstly i did not get a ticket on the car..secondly i was not driving...

 

Then they have absolutely no case against you. Under no circumstances contact them especially do not identify the driver.

thirdly it stated that parking could be for 2 hours free the car was there for 15 mins!!! and finally shall i bother telling them this or really just ignore them with no repercussions???

 

Just ignore them, give them nothing to go on, and nowhere to go.

 

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If you admit you are the driver, then you are admitting that you breached the terms of the supposed contract... this is usually a flaw in the whole [problem] because they send the ticket to the registered keeper who is not necessarly the driver! By admitting in a letter you are the driver it seems to give the PPCs a bit of encouragement to take things further!

 

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but a case was taken to court in the past and the PPC won because the defendant admitted to being the driver on a forum!

 

The PPC won because the defendant had a poor defence and dwelled on the driver side of things.

 

If you weren't the driver, great. You have a cast iron defence.

 

If you were the driver, don't spend your time dodging the issue and looking bad. Concentrate on the myriad of defences regarding the unenforceability of the charge.

 

It is the driver who breached the contract

 

And what is the remedy for alleged breach of contract...?

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and the remedy is?........

 

.... to return the claimant (landowner) to the same position he would have been in had the breach of contract not taken place.

 

i.e. if you overstayed in a free carpark by 5 minutes, then you should compenstate the landowner (not a 3rd party PPC) for the revenue he has lost by you using the car park for too long. Loss = 0

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Bit confused though, do I have to conpensate the landowner whoever that is now or later?

 

How would the landowner be loss=0?

 

Probably being thick here but if I understood it I would probably be a lawyer!

 

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What crem is saying that this is a civil matter. This means that you can not be taken to court and made to pay a fine or a penalty, as that would be a punishment and no joe blogs can impose a penalty on another.

 

If the car park charged £1 per hour, and you paid £1, but stayed for two, then the landowner could take you to court for breach of contract, and only sue you for its loss because of it... which would be £1 (for the second hour). He could not charge you £70 for a PCN etc. because the only loss incurred would be the £1 if someone else had actually used the space and paid!

 

If it's a free car park, then they lost £0 by you overstaying because if someone else had come along, they would have been doing it for free too!!!

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