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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.   
    • S13 (2)The creditor may not exercise the right under paragraph 4 to recover from the keeper any unpaid parking charges specified in the notice to keeper if, within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which that notice was given, the creditor is given— (a)a statement signed by or on behalf of the vehicle-hire firm to the effect that at the material time the vehicle was hired to a named person under a hire agreement; (b)a copy of the hire agreement; and (c)a copy of a statement of liability signed by the hirer under that hire agreement. As  Arval has complied with the above they cannot be pursued by EC----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S14 [1]   the creditor may recover those charges (so far as they remain unpaid) from the hirer. (2)The conditions are that— (a)the creditor has within the relevant period given the hirer a notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) (a “notice to hirer”), together with a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph 13(2) and the notice to keeper; (b)a period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the notice to hirer was given has elapsed;  As ECP did not send copies of the documents to your company and they have given 28 days instead of 21 days they have failed to comply with  the Act so you and your Company are absolved from paying. That is not to say that they won't continue asking to be paid as they do not have the faintest idea how PoFA works. 
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Couldn't be organised as Johnson the crim would have withdrawn the whip from anyone caught doing that. and theres too many who owe their position to Johnson .. no-one half way competent would have them.

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seems to me what might happen , is everything goes quiet until after the two by election likely defeats
then either the "men in grey suits" give Johnson a tap on the shoulder (which he would likely ignore anyway)
or we have a Thatcher moment when the cabinet troop in one by one and tell him his time is up (though he'd probably sack the lot and carry on anyway 😀)

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the main 'unfit to hold office' person who empowered the others now unfit in office

- not that we had much choice or chance at the time of actually getting anyone 'fit for office'

 

- and even now the alternative options are really mainly for people fit for office rather than outstanding inspiring leaders - but I'll take that hoping it will reverse the downwards trend we've been seeing

 

 

 

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Starmer needs to watch this and grow some

 

 

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Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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So the government are already threatening to call an early election. It was also Smug who came up with proroguing Parliament.

 

From the Times: 'He said that because the fixed-term parliaments act had been revoked, Johnson could turn any vote in the Commons into a confidence vote. If he lost, it would trigger the dissolution of parliament and an election. A source who was at the meeting said: “Jacob was making the point that this was something nobody, even the rebels, wants.” '

 

Never mind that on the latest figures Johnson would lose his seat.

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And here are Martin Kettle's thoughts on the current situation.

 

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Government will start to throw money around it has not got.  See todays story about people on benefits being enabled to take out mortgages. No doubt with Government subsidy and guarantor financial backing.

 

This is just the start. Get ready for cuts in some taxes and announcements of money to be spent on supporting communities (red wall seats won in 2019).

 

 

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Absolutely UB, Rishi  has already started, expect another handout next year Joe Biden style (though its not done him much good so far)
But I still think if he throws enough  money at people the Tories will be the largest party at the next GE , regardless of By election results

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I'm not sure a handout next year is going to cut it, people are having problems already.

 

Meanwhile two other rail unions are threatening to join the RMT this summer in timing that could affect the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. As they're already 5,000 people short to run the games and are talking about the army for that, I don't see them being available to help with the railways.

 

Summer of Discontent, anyone?

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Quite likely, discontent always rears its head during periods of high inflation
especially with fuel heading towards £2 per litre (sorry for betraying the metric martyrs on this occasion😀)

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8 hours ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

Boris the liar and pals will say they will start to throw money around it has not got, and wouldn't deliver in any way that helps ordinary people anyway

 

 

 

Corrected there Unc

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David Allen Green has a fascinating new blog trying to disentagle the stofy on the legal advice taken or not taken for the forthcoming bill for NI. He thinks there's a huge row going on within the government.

 

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9th June 2022 Something odd – and worrying – is happening. Of course, there are always odd and worrying things happening – increasingly in the...

 

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There is nothing wrong with NI protocol, but there is a problem with the DUP.

 

Even if UK Government managed to agree revised processes with the EU, so there were no significant delays for 99% of goods at the border in Belfast, the DUP would not be happy. The problem for the DUP is that NI is being treated differently than England, Scotland and Wales.

 

I understand the difficulties the Government is having as legally they cannot break protocol terms, but don't understand why they think clever tactical maneuvers are going to change the position of the DUP.

 

Government could end up breaking the law and not really changing much.

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You're right UB. The DUP seem to have the same mindset as the ERG in that nothing is ever good enough and every time there is a concession, they move the goalposts and want more.

 

There must be a trust issue after Johnson stitched up the DUP with the border in the Irish Sea and then lied about it. In fact, I don't ever remember him admitting he knew what he was doing to NI border checks.

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The problem is Johnson ....

 

i was going to type more about his promising/lying/talking doodoo on the fly/waffling all sorts of conflicting things to different factions .. but line 1 covers that and far more

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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

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I don't know if the food policy announcement is being made on Monday now, as it looks as if the NI bill is ready with the Truss/Frost/ERG amendments in it. The papers today are saying that's out on Monday.

 

Anyway, the food strategy hasn't gone down well with some.

 

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Been following those as well as the rises in Covid cases with the spread of Omicron v4 + v5 and bread prices are rising as Ukraine and Russia are literally 2 of the main 'bread basket' regions of Europe.

 

How anyone can claim inflation is only 9/10% i have no idea .. oops - that its boris the Liar influenced claims of course explains it.

 

 

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Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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Partygate/Metgate concise summary

 

 

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Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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I see Tossus-Potus has replaced the prior lead bonus of brexit - delaying any implementation to prevent collapse of UK business

- with a new one - reintroducing more powerful vacuum cleaners ..

 

err .. No one can afford to run vacuums that use double the electricity except your servants using your 3,500 pound MPs 'energy expense allowance' Tossus 

 

and as pointed out by Tom Peck:

"Who is going to manufacture these vacuum cleaners? And are they going to bother producing a more powerful version solely for the UK market?

The answer to that is no. If the UK were a big enough vacuum-cleaner market on its own, one suspects that leading Brexiteer and vacuum magnate James Dyson might not have relocated his company to Singapore."

 

 

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Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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There seem to be an awful lot of downsides and hardly any upsides, TJ.

 

For the legal side, David Allen Green has done a blog with some good observations. He thinks the government's legal position makes no sense.

 

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13th June 2022 The government of the United Kingdom published this evening the Northern Irish Protocol Bill. This Bill is so the government can...

 

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In simple terms (as I understand it) 

The liar + sweller the rubber stamper (plus the numpty brigade) are relying on the “doctrine of necessity” which apparently can ONLY be invoked when a country’s interests are in

1. “grave and imminent peril”

2. for reasons to which it has not contributed

 

Seems to me that

* Johnson et arses al are the ones who negotiated and forced through the protocol in full awareness of the implications however much they may have simply hoped or even (unreasonably) expected that they wouldn't have to deliver (strike one)

* Johnsons populists and the DUPs political wants (and the political aims of the DUP as a now minority party) is what is causing grave and imminent peril to the UK rather than the protocol (strike two)

* NI largely has the best of both worlds (cake and eat it) and is actually prospering beyond the overall UK under the protocol  (strike three)

* Breaching the agreement with the EU is likely to cause considerably more issues for NI than there are with it in place (strike four)

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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

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It sounds tenuous to me but we may never find out unless there's an international court case over this.

 

Just saw this in the Guardian live feed.

 

Boris Johnson has floated the prospect of the UK pulling out of the European convention on human rights if that turns out to be necessary to allow the Rwanda deportation policy to continue, the Mail’s Jason Groves reports.

Here we go again. Rather than get a decent policy, let's wreck the institution/convention that's standing in our way. Baby out with the bathwater in my view and the British public will be the losers.

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