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    • Thank-you dx, What you have written is certainly helpful to my understanding. The only thing I would say, what I found to be most worrying and led me to start this discussion is, I believe the judge did not merely admonish the defendant in the case in question, but used that point to dismiss the case in the claimants favour. To me, and I don't have your experience or knowledge, that is somewhat troubling. Again, the caveat being that we don't know exactly what went on but I think we can infer the reason for the judgement. Thank-you for your feedback. EDIT: I guess that the case I refer to is only one case and it may never happen again and the strategy not to appeal is still the best strategy even in this event, but I really did find the outcome of that case, not only extremely annoying but also worrying. Let's hope other judges are not quite so narrow minded and don't get fixated on one particular issue as FTMDave alluded to.
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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.
    • Well barristers would say that in the hope that motorists would go to them for advice -obviously paid advice.  The problem with appealing is at least twofold. 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.  And in a lot of cases the last thing the keeper wants when they are also the driver is that the parking company knows that. It makes it so much easier for them as the majority  of Judges do not accept that the keeper and the driver are the same person for obvious reasons. Often they are not the same person especially when it is a family car where the husband, wife and children are all insured to drive the same car. On top of that  just about every person who has a valid insurance policy is able to drive another person's vehicle. So there are many possibilities and it should be up to the parking company to prove it to some extent.  Most parking company's do not accept appeals under virtually any circumstances. But insist that you carry on and appeal to their so called impartial jury who are often anything but impartial. By turning down that second appeal, many motorists pay up because they don't know enough about PoFA to argue with those decisions which brings us to the second problem. 2] the major parking companies are mostly unscrupulous, lying cheating scrotes. So when you appeal and your reasons look as if they would have merit in Court, they then go about  concocting a Witness Statement to debunk that challenge. We feel that by leaving what we think are the strongest arguments to our Member's Witness Statements, it leaves insufficient time to be thwarted with their lies etc. And when the motorists defence is good enough to win, it should win regardless of when it is first produced.   
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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
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shhh

He'll claim they were all his votes (People incapable of correctly marking an x in a box? so he may have a point) and demand a recount despite it not being able to change anything,

.. except perhaps reduce the immense scope of no-one with sense wanting him ... just a bit maybe ..

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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So lets look at Sunak

 

Created a covid loan system without even basic safeguards to prevent crooks by the score just creating companies with no history to get the loan and vanish with billions in taxpayer money

 

Insists that simple working taxpayers must pay more, while at the same time giving banks an increased  £Billion a year in tax breaks - despite mega bank profits

 

Created a PPE fast lane system with Johnson that allowed hyped up prices for faulty/unusable PPE at a cost of billions to the taxpayer to the financial benefit of VIPal middlemen rather than following tender process and getting better, cheaper, more appropriate deals via experienced civil servants. (reported as around 75% wastage of the £billions of taxpayer money squandered)

 

Allows water companies to increase costs, simply for these companies to increase already high payments in dividends and boss bonuses, while these companies continue to pour polluted and polluting Sewage into UK waterways, and history tells us more money to water companies = more profits and bonuses NOT more or even adequate investment.

 

Tells the population they must pay more for energy amid MASSIVE increases in profits to the oil/gas companies, and plans to effectively undermine the price cap with rises every few months. While MP's can claim £3500 a year in energy cost paid for by taxpayers.

 

UK infaltion at the highest in 30 years - and increasing

 

Wont feed hungry UK kids

 

Now saying wage increases to pay for all the increased prices must be 'restrained' while the cost of living rises out of control

 

and thats just for starters

I wouldn't let him run his own kids piggy bank

 

 

 

 

 

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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The clip was filmed in 2018 as part of a three-part documentary on the US embassy called Inside the American Embassy.

 

 

 

 

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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Profiting from others misery and destitution in expectation of extended dividends

 

Energy stocks (.FTNMX601010) outperformed, rising 3.8% to their highest level in nearly two years as oil prices extended gains on U.S. supply concerns amid frigid U.S. weather and ongoing political turmoil.

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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What gets me is that the 'Tory' party, despite all Johnsons abuses, self-serving, mismanagement and incompetence, is still struggling to get rid of him.

 

ERG still largely in the driving seat.

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Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

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An explanation of the many spoiled votes

 

"Thousands of voters in the uncontested Southend West by-election spoilt their ballot papers with messages directed at the government, according to local BBC reports."

 

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The Psychedelic Movement came runner-up in the contest with 512 votes, ahead of UKIP candidate Steve Laws in third place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lets have some real Tory 'references

 

 

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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French government to force @edfenergy , the state run giant, to take £7bn hit to protect households by limiting bill hikes to 4%. The Govt should here should consider a windfall tax
 
 
 
If France can impose a windfall tax why can’t we? Can someone ask our Billionaire Chancellor please?
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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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I wonder how Guto Harri enjoyed his first day in charge of comms for no10.

 

Is he going to join the people telling the PM he must apologise for the Savile slur on Keir Starmer and withdraw the remark completely? A lot of MPs on both sides of the house think that the insults hurled at Starmer yesterday were emboldened by what the PM said. Very dangerous.

 

Meanwhile, any day now the media expect Demonic to start tweeting more dirt on no10 parties, etc.

 

 

Illegitimi non carborundum

 

 

 

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escort to the gallows?

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

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"Boris Johnson’s new director of communications said just over a week ago that his new boss’s integrity was “hard to judge” and those who had previously worked for the PM did not want to go into Downing Street to “walk him to the gallows”.

 

Interesting that macron has been meeting Putin, and the yanks are primarily allied with the Germans/EU re sanctions

.. seems 'irrelevant Johnson hasn't been invited to the 'party

 

 

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Guto Harri made the comments last week in an interview on a BBC podcast.

 

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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"“This would represent a stunning retreat from the pro-climate posturing we saw from the government at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.”"

 

"Rishi Sunak - who said last week he wanted to encourage more investment in new fossil fuel drilling - is reported to have pressed the business secretary to fast-track applications.

 

A new oil and gas field in the North Sea has already been given the green light this year - just two months after the UK held the global climate Cop26 summit. Green groups fiercely criticised the move, accusing the government of hypocrisy"

 

 

 

 

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he wants to encourage more investment in new fossil fuel drilling

 

 

No surprises as

"The UK declined to join an international alliance aimed at ending new oil and gas projects at the Cop26 summit in November hosted in Glasgow."

 

 

Some might say we need this given the price rises

- Nope - just entrenching the issues waaaay into the future.

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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I see the leader of the DUP is calling the Tory party English Nationalists, more interested in red wall seats in England than anywhere else in the UK.

 

Surprised it took this long for the DUP to realise the reasons why many Tories supported Brexit, as one of the only ways to win a majority in Westminster.  Brexit was always more about creating an issue, which voters from left and right could support, as it suggested that UK Government without interference of the EU could deliver a better quality of life. Which is why many outside of London and South East England voted Tory for the first time in 2019.

 

Now the realities of Brexit are starting to be revealed and the Tories have a massive task in improving quality of life issues before the next General Election.

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I agree, UB, they're going to find it very hard and the finances look bad.

 

One serious problem is going to be the NHS. They admitted yesterday that waiting lists are likely to grow over the next two years, so until the probable election, when Tory MPs want them reduced. None of the promises to recruit doctors and nurses seem to have come to anything and Brexit didn't help when so many EU staff left.

 

And the new hospitals haven't materialised. There's no one to blame, really, they've been in power for so long now.

 

Of course, the politicians are talking as if the pandemic is over but the last I read was that hospitals are still under huge strain.

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Theres an underlying assumption in uncs assumption that the Corrupt Party Party want to improve lives other than their own

... in that the brexiters actually wanted to deliver on the lies they spun, and that they were just stupid and incompetent, rather than that they simply were and are piling lie upon lie to get their way in the moment

 

I dont accept those assumptions as holding any validity or credibility whatsoever

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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No HB

Its more that the Brexiter 'Tories NEVER had any intention of delivering on what they promised then, so why would they now?

 

 

lets look at Sunak protecting big oil/gas profits:

 

BP posted gargantuan profits of £13bn last year – but has paid £0 (zero, nil, nada ) tax in the UK for the past five, according to research by Uplift and first reported by Channel 4 News. BP, whose chief executive previously described the pandemic as a “cash machine” for the company, is also extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea.

 

and

the chief executive of Ofgem has admitted the energy regulator should have acted sooner to prevent firms from collapsing amid soaring prices. 

 

 

Its the massive profiteering by these large energy companies which has caused and is causing  the independent energy retailers to go bust/run up massive debt

- win win for the big energy companies - massive profits + those driving prices down who broke their cartel going bust

 

 

PLUS:

"extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea."

 

That these large profiteering companies are ALSO getting UK taxpayer support to decommission their junk once theres no profit in it adds insult to injury

 

 

Looong past time the people actually feeding the cash cow got some of the milk, rather than just the bill for cleaning up its ****

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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Its official

 

A day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed a “Brexit opportunities” minister, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said that the “only detectable impact” of Brexit so far has been to increase burdens on businesses.

 

"Britain’s departure from the European Union has brought higher costs, more red tape and border delays for businesses"

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

 

10 years to save the Vest

After Truss lost the shirt off the UKs back in 49 days

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The Mirror have a new photo of the Downing Street Xmas quiz. Demonic says there are far better photos, including in the flat.

 

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The image shows the Prime Minister flanked by three members of staff, one wearing tinsel and another a Santa hat, at the event on December 15, 2020

 

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