More than a MILLION motorists are being chased by "bounty hunters" over unpaid parking fines !!!

[tomtubby]

The following article appeared today in the Daily Mail and is sadly....not a surprise to everyone reading this forum:

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2405371/More-MILLION-motorists-chased-bounty-hunters-unpaid-parking-fines.html

[brassnecked]

It is a sorry state of affairs, motorists are the ultimate cash cow.

 

This will become more like the Wild West next year when the likes of JBW will be taking away more cars than ever under the Taking Control Of Goods amendments, even if the new innocent owner, shows V5 etc, as they know many cannot afford the costs of paying the PCN, and bailiff costs to go to interpleader, so kerching for them, and a legalised theft of an innocent motorists car. What type of skunk weed was fed into the aircon at the Commons for them to come up with this appalling amendment?

Edited August 29, 2013 by brassnecked

[Surfer01]

On reading the newspaper article I am wondering when the BPA was appointed to be a voice piece on behalf of councils?

[brassnecked]

On reading the newspaper article I am wondering when the BPA was appointed to be a voice piece on behalf of councils?

They voted themselves into the job to save the councils the bother.

[lamma]

"I am wondering when the BPA was appointed to be a voice piece on behalf of councils?"

Just about every CPE Council is a member of the BPA. You may wonder why these public servants (governed by Administrative Law) spend your money on membership of a trade association (NOT governed by Administrative Law) as well as being part of the usual LA groups - LASIG etc.

the BPA grasp of Civil Law seems tenuous at best to me and I have severe doubts as to their expertise in Administrative Law. So what do the LAs receive for the non-trivial membership fees to the BPA ?

 

As I have said before this is just another facet of Chicago School economics run riot - UK style.

 

The comments in the linked article are uninformed at best in regard to CPE parking. There is no CCJ in the CPE process, albeit a debt is registered at the 'TEC Court' - and I use the word Court in a strange and unusual way, just as the TEC and the regulations do.

 

There is no CCJ for several reasons, not least that Adjudications at PATAS and the TPT are NOT judicial they merely have the appearance of being judicial. The 'magic' employed by the Regulation and the TEC/PATAS/TPT does not extend to creating a CCJ. It cannot as there is no "Judgement".

Magic:

Def: Sleight of hand which is made effective and believable by misdirection, deception and practised manipulation to make people believe that the impossible is not only possible but that it actually happened.

Edited August 29, 2013 by lamma

[brassnecked]

@lamma"Def: Sleight of hand which is made effective and believable by misdirection, deception and practised manipulation to make people believe that the impossible is not only possible but that it actually happened."

 

A bit like Common Purpose then.....

[Fulhamboy]

Owning a car whether it be an old banger is becoming a luxury with petrol prices and insurance costs

and also you pay for the privilege of parking on your street . I might get in on the act and from what I have read on various threads I have come up with a wizard wheeze . Buy a clamp off E BAY, Go out and clamp an expensive motor ie a Porsche or 4x4 , leave a note on the window screen with just my mobile number on it . Knowing that the owner will phone the police who will do frack all about it. Give him my bank details with a figure plucked off the Barstons website and hold him or her to ransom. A friend of mine registers his van in Ireland and his insurance at his proper address . Perhaps we have to resort to underhand tactics like this . My local council are planning more stealth cameras even though they got a rap over the knuckles recently

[tomtubby]

It will not be long before the public start rebelling and registering their cars in the Isle of Man or Isle of Wight. It is my understanding that the "debts" cannot be registered in either of the Isles.