MSE News: Legality of private parking fines to be tested in court today

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A case is being heard at the Court of Appeal today, which could set a precedent on reclaiming excessive parking fines ...

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• " private parking fines"
  Really? Do any of MSE's "Officials" read anything that's posted on here?
• Will strangers park in your estate, if parking fines are just the price of a hamburger?
• It's carnage up here in Scotland, what with POFA not applying so keepers can simply ignore anything from PPCs and their DC chums.
  Oh wait ................ it isn't.
• gosh thanks for the heads up , I also look forward to the junk email telling me about this in the next few days,
  I had no idea this was happening now ,
  possibly , because I know that no skilled writer would use the word "fined" and "parking eye" in the same sentence , as we know Parking Eye work within the law , and would never attempt to use the word "fine"
• No judgement today.
• It's not news - we've been discussing it for years now...
• https://parking-prankster.blogspot.co...of-appeal.html
• parking eye fined me Ј50 +Ј2.50 credit card charge because I was 5 minutes over the 2 hours free parking.there was a Que onto the main road out of the car park.
• And perhaps also register with challengethefine.com
• I won my case at the appeal against a Ј90 fine at one of Liddl's car park for an overstay of 20 mins. The judge decided to reject POPLA's claim for the simple reason that there was no specific contract between the owner of the land at that site and POPLA.
  Fight the bandits!
• If the judges base their conclusion on the law as it stands then PE's justification of the penalty as being 'commercially justifiable' should be thrown out - that's a big if, terribly amusing that their own representative called the charge a 'penalty' (therefore not a Genuine Pre-Estimate of Loss and not legal). Wish I'd have been there!
  All could be avoided if PE ran this car park correctly instead of relying on CCTV/implied contract/signage. There is a barrier and a kiosk at entry/exit, perhaps they could employ someone to give out tickets/accept payment, or even install payment machines - a business model based on only making a profit if an implied contract is broken is a bit weird imo.
  A disgrace that PE pay the landowner Ј1k, the retailers have no say in parking management, that PE reduced the parking from 3 hours to 2 on a large retail site, that DVLA give out keeper details with little check and at a huge profit (no matter what they say), that PE use bullying tactics and intimidate over-stayers, cynically abuse the small claims courts (not to mention hoax phone calls/telling falsehoods/severely redacting documents, blah, blah) and absolutely amazing that no one pays business rates on this car park which, obviously and, as PE admits itself is run as a commercial operation - if they 'win' I hope someone will rectify this situation ... the shopper/parker, the retailers and the Council tax payers lose. What a country!
• Locally the fish and chip shop relies on trade from people parking for free for about 10-15 minutes whilst they make/collect their orders. If all those spaces were blocked by people parking for 2h 56mins people would not shop there and the fish shop would almost certainly not have enough trade to stay in business...I'm only saying.