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http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2015/06/motorist-takes-parking-charge-challenge-to-highest-uk-court

 

I would now argue that if any PPC try to use the current judgement in their claim that the defendant highlights that an appeal has now been filed and the reference to Bevis be inappropriate until the supreme court make a ruling.

 

 

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Well, as far as they can say, its been "ruled" on so they will attempt to use it as a "concrete ruling" although its been appealed against

 

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Well, as far as they can say, its been "ruled" on so they will attempt to use it as a "concrete ruling" although its been appealed against

 

It has been ruled upon by a lower court, but as it's now subject to an appeal to a higher court, a PPC attempting to use the judgement without mentioning that it is the subject of an appeal to the Supreme Court may find themselves on a rather sticky wicket wink.png

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In fact, they're probably just waffling and can be quite safely and completely ignored as you wish.

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Parking Eye do not mention this appeal on their website. They are still gloating on their "win" at the COA. Going on past form, they will probably "forget" to mention the latest appeal in the paperwork they send to motorists and when filing court papers.

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Sooner than we thought...

 

The Supreme Court will now hear Mr Beavis' appeal alongside that of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi, which also involves the enforceability of penalty clauses in contracts.

 

 

 

https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/beavis-v-parkingeye-ltd.html

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Trouble is the cases are in reality chalk and cheese but the judiciary are making a decision that consumer contracts are to be treated the same as business to business contracts drawn up by lawyers.

This means that you should ensure that you take your solicitor to Sainsburys next time you go by car. The alternative is to buy shares and make sure a nuimber of like-minded people turn up at the AGM and give the chairman a bit of stick under AOB. You wont get any movement but it will have to go in the annual report. Eventually one of the big 4 supermarkets will drop these bandits and then the others will have to follow suit or suffer with the publicity. Supermarket A could run adverts reminding people that you can shop there without being penalised for spending your money with them and at spermarket B you get clobbered with a £90 penalty for being a loyal customer.

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Hopefully the Supreme Court judges are more knowledgeable of consumer protection laws and aims, and give equal treatment to both sides in the case rather than the CoA judges who had the appearance of having made their minds up without proper consideration of the consumer laws, and the aims behind it. If a pcn from a council for £35 is a penalty, then a £80 pcn from a private company is a penalty and the fact that at least £65 of that £80 is profit to the ppcs and not loss shows that this system has no place in contract or consumer law. Come on judges. Hopefully they base theur decision on the law and precedents rather than what is in the best interest of the parking companies.

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I fear the worst...

 

Crapita have friends in high places and know how to shake hands.

 

PE's revenue would be hindered for at least a year at POPLA and through the court system if Mr Beavis was allowed his appeal to be heard , as it should be , on its own merits.

 

As eb states above, chalk and cheese imo.

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the judiciary have been making noises for a while about making consumer contract law the same as commercial contract law as it will make their jobs easier. The reason for pushing the square peg in the round hole is mostly down to the areas of law that most judges specialised in before being made judges and that is commercial law. You will not find a single higher tier judge who was previously a defence barrister in criminal law for example.

When the only tool is a hammer then every job becomes a nail.

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The Supreme Court will hear the case only on the same evidence presented in the original case. As the original case was so badly handled by Beavis and his representatives I imagine the Supreme Court will reach the same conclusion.

I have to wonder if Beavis is some kind of stool pigeon for the private parking industry.

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th point of the supreme ourt appeal is to show that the judges misdirected themselves rather than to introduce a raft of new evidence. This is easy to do for a couple of points but is that substantive enough to overturn all of the previous decisions?

They can decide that the judges have misdirected themselves and sent if all back to stage 1 at county court but I dont think that is going to happen. As I said, I think that a decision has been made to make a determination that all contract law is the same and the outcome will make a mockery of half of the 2 conjoined appeals. This means that the likely outcome is that penalty clauses will be added to a lot of contracts in the future and they wont be dressed up as something else.

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Both parties counsels will already know the verdict, but are barred from telling anyone. A vigilant observer in Chorley may be able to guess the answer depending on whether the pubs run dry, or whether or not a number of boastful posts appear on parking forums, as happened after the Court of Appeal verdict.

 

Or maybe a sudden rush of 'please pay now we will accept anything' letters...

 

 

 

 

 

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/parkingeye-v-beavis-judgment-date.html?m=1

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Just adding the link to the supreme court

 

https://www.supremecourt.uk/live/court-02.html

 

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Yes, no further appeals available.

 

Time to get our thinking caps on.

 

Time to lobby our MP's ?

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Has the motorist gained anything from this ruling ?

 

If not, will this case now be seen as very unhelpful to motorists and should never have been started ?

 

This is such a good statement and something a lot of people on other forums dont dare say

 

Barry was a fool to have started this, he was egged on by certain people to appeal to the court of appeal. I have no issue with the case being made in the county court but the next stage had to many risks for other people.

 

He may have thought he was some kind of parking warrior, but he has put the nail in the coffin for thousands of people who will have no choice but to simply pay up now.

 

What is he going to do for people who will lose at POPLA because of his actions? he had tunnel vision with this and he didn't think about the affects on other people. If hadnt tried to be clever then people could still easily win cases. Now it will be virtually impossible to win court cases (bar ones with signage contract etc), and very difficult to win at POPLA.

 

So whats his advice now and will he shell out because of the effects of his actions (we all know the answer to that one)

 

So that is it, illegal penalty clauses are now legal because they have been used by parking companies for a long time and no-one has challenged them before.

As I have postulated, they have now placed a consumer contract on the same footing as a bilateral contract negotiated between lawyers acting for both parties and because money would be lost by the parking companies if it was otherwise and limited the extent of the Unfair Trading Terms legislation in the same way becasue that would curtail PE's ability to enforce their suspect contract.

Follow the money as they say.

Was the case unhelpful? I dont think so, contract law judgements have been heading in that direction for about the last 15 years. Most judges come from a background of commercial law so they are making decisions that would make their previous jobs in the City much easier if they were in place before they became judges.

I also note that they have fired a warning shot at the politicians with regard to the EU legislation and are basically warning the legislators not to interfere with their decision.

 

But what Barry has done is put the nail in the coffin for argument which worked well at POPLA and often worked at the county court.

 

So what is this site going to advise if a parking site has a proper contract, decent signage, what are people to do......?

 

This is taken from CPS website (perky) and i have to say i couldnt agree more, he is spot on:

 

Following the result in the supreme court of Barry Beavis -v- Parking Eye we hope the position is clear in everyones mind, however on checking the various consumer forums they are STILL trying to convince people the charges are not enforceable.

 

The judges were perfectly clear in their judgement that parking charges issued are 100% enforceable and with the Supreme Court being the highest court in the land this decision is binding on ALL other courts – even though the judge hearing the case may disagree.

 

 

We are unsure why the internet forums are still debating the issue, we can only presume it is because they have been proved wrong and all the people who ignored tickets and letters on their advice will quite rightly be unhappy when they receive county court papers through their letterbox.

 

We also suspect that despite the forum advisors hiding behind aliases they are really highly educated and qualified legal experts who know the law better than the 7 supreme court judges that heard the arguments and made the decision.

 

One thing is for certain, thanks to the internet forums they have done wonders for stenthning the legal position of parking companies who issue charges, ensuring the law is no longer unclear and paving the way for clarification.

 

So where does it go from here?

 

It does not go any where, other then it may be a case of paying up when before you didnt need to, this will depend on the operator !

 

Thanks Barry!!

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The other therad is closed? With this ruling where does that leave a BB holder when they visit a hospital and there are signs up stating that BB have to also pay for parking although the BB has a letter from the hospital asking them to attend an appointment? What would happen if the BB refused to pay and then cha;llenged the invoice as it is not a ticket? Same applies to parking in a retail park where the parking is limited to 1 or 2 hours?

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