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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. 
    • Euro have got a lot wrong and have failed to comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4.  According to Section 13 after ECP have written to Arval they should then send a NTH to the Hirer  which they have done.This eliminates Arval from any further pursuit by ECP. When they wrote to your company they should have sent copies of everything that they asked Arval for. This is to prove that your company agree what happened on the day of the breach. If ECP then comply with the Act they are allowed to pursue the hirer. If they fail, to comply they cannot make the hirer pay. They can pursue until they are blue in the face but the Hirer is not lawfully required to pay them and if it went to Court ECP would lose. Your company could say who was driving but the only person that can be pursued is the Hirer, there does not appear to be an extension for a driver to be pursued. Even if there was, because ECP have failed miserably to comply with the Act  they still have no chance of winning in Court. Here are the relevant Hire sections from the Act below.
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It wasn't apparent until the police interviewed the cherry pickers who being honest folk & thinking they where not doing anything wrong probably readily admitted taking the berries. Upto that point it was only the word of one person which started the manhunt

 

I'm sorry your missing the point again. For the police to investigate the OP only had to make the allegation of a crime for there to be sufficient cause for action & I don't care if they did hand their money over willingly, at the time, until they do investigate they will not be able to say one way or another if a crime has been committed.

 

Again no one will know if a deception took place unless they investigate the allegations. The deception would occur if they claimed they wanted the money for one thing whilst all the time intending to use it for another. For example if after investigating it was found that there never was a bailiff knocking at the door that would be sufficient for a charge of deception.

 

They keep telling us but you seem to ignore, that the law requires they investigate ALL alledged crimes.

 

The con man did not tell the OP anything though that is the point. He went quite sandy asked what was wrong and after some persuasion he said he had financial problems. She then offered to lend him some money but he did not say he would use it for anything in particular. The inference was taken from what he said about his financial problems. There was no direct request for money and no direct confirmation what it would be used for.

 

Anyhow it looks like the OP has gone to ground now so we may as well forget the whole thing.

 

p.s. Happy New Year to you all.

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dont have any emails - as i regularly empty my box - i only have one text that says "thank you. i thought i would txt you to let you know; the money arrived in my account. Thank you so much for this"

 

Sandy - Depending on what email system you use you may find copies of sent/received emails you thought you'd deleted are still lurking around. If your email system has the facility for both offline reading and for reading via 'webmail' it might be worth logging in and double checking via the method you use less frequently.

 

Also, in serious crime cases am I right in thinking the police can get access to things like text messages that have been sent/received from mobiles? If this is so perhaps your network operator (Orange) is still storing messages that you've deleted from your phone and could supply you with copies. Also - double check your sent messages folder as your phone may auto-store them without you realising.

 

All long shots admitedly, but worth a try in the situation, as they'd be excellent evidence to back up your intention of it being a loan.

"Be reasonable, demand the impossible"

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if i was sandy i would be all over this site, getting FREE legal advice, etc but there hasnt been a post for ages.

 

i want to know if sandy has made any headway

post office WON 12/11/06

 

abbey.LBA sent 30/10/06.MCOL claim submitted 8/11/06.allocation questionnaire sent 16/12/06.schedule of charges sent 16/12/06.WON

 

2nd abbey claim SAR sent 3/1/07.WON.complaint letter sent 18/1/08

 

alliance and Leicester.WON

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with reference to missing Sandy12, lets just hope she hasnt done something stupid, after all she did appear very ashamed and at a low point in the early posts,

a very sad story, lessons to be learnt if nothing else, and in all probablilty if she had mentioned that she had £6000 he would have needed £5000 and so on.

Sandy, if you are still out there, our hearts go out to you, too trusting but dont ever change, just learn from it

Good luck

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Could well be a very seasoned and clever con, I really do feel for Sandy. It's sad that you have to be so cynical in this world, really, when that's what you get for being so trusting and kind-hearted.

 

I do think that Sandy - if you're still reading - should go back through the history on her PC and look for stored conversations, attempt to retrieve old messages, which might prove that this was not intended as a gift. Without this evidence, even if the police could find the chap involved they wouldn't have anything to go on in a criminal investigation, as the criminal courts work on a basis of convicting "beyond reasonable doubt". It would be hard to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the money was not a gift without any hard evidence to back this up.

 

I think it's still a terrible shame though as this guy could be out there right now trying this on with who knows how many people. That's a very real worry.

Please note I'm not insured in this capacity, so if you need to, do get official legal advice.

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For all we know, the OP could be out for the sympathy vote and may be after some of our money in return. Just a thought, I'm going to get berated for this, but it could just be true.

 

Secondly, how long would it take to gain someone's trust in terms of hours/day? I cannot see someone making a living out of deceiving people in chatrooms and then running off with their money. More likely was that this person realised they could make a fast buck, and did. Then disappeared. I doubt it's a regular [problem] due to the massive amount of time involved -- e.g. who has £4k to spare?, how many people are willing to hand this out no matter how well you know someone? This "criminal" would probably need to spend hundreds of hours scouring chatrooms in search of a victim. Can't see it myself.

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They don't have to spend the time exclusively on each candidate - they could chat to more than one person at once and even an average of £1k per person or even £500 if they averaged that each week it would be a nice little earner. But I agree its probably not their full time job and just saw an oppertunity.

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For all we know, the OP could be out for the sympathy vote and may be after some of our money in return. Just a thought, I'm going to get berated for this, but it could just be true.

 

 

reading this I must admit that thought had also passed my mind! The only thing I find a bit strange is that the OP siad ' I'll go back to the police later' and then ' I;ve been back to the police' and this was actually on Xmas day ... how many people would do this on that day??? Also as the OP seems to have now dissappeared ... dare I sugest this could be a troll?

 

Anyway, I may be wrong n they are just my thoughts - who knows in this strange world we now live in!

links to my current claims ...

My claim - Yorkshire Bank Visa

chezt V RBS Mastercard

Chezt v RBS Joint Account

chezt v Abbey Credit Card

 

Settled ...

chezt V Duet Card/Creation Finance

chezt v's Studio Cards

chezt v's Littlewoods Catalogue

 

Next ...

Abbey Joint a/c & Single a/c

Barclaycard (Mine & Hubby's)

Anyone else I can think of ...! :rolleyes:

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