Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2017 12:43:26 GMT
Court orders woman to pay £24,500 to private parking company (Tayside and Central Scotland) (3 April 2017 (BBC)
A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges.
Parking 'tickets' issued by private companies in private car parks are not fines, they are Parking Charge Notices.
By parking in a restricted area, a motorist can be considered to be agreeing to a contract, provided there is adequate signage warning of the charge.
Failing to pay can be seen as a breach of contract and the car parking firm can take the motorist to court to recover their losses.
"A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges.
The sheriff said Ms Mackie had "entirely misdirected herself" on both the law and "the contractual chain" in the case.
He said: "The defender is bound by that contract and incurred the parking charge on each occasion.
"The defender refused to pay the parking charges not because she was unaware of the parking scheme or the terms of the notices or the financial consequences of parking at any time, but because she did not believe that the charges were valid in law.
"The parking charges flow from a valid contract between the pursuers and the defender and she is liable for them."
Details:-
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-39478203
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Barry Beavis loses Supreme Court parking battle (4 November 2015) (BBC)
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-34721126
A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges.
Parking 'tickets' issued by private companies in private car parks are not fines, they are Parking Charge Notices.
By parking in a restricted area, a motorist can be considered to be agreeing to a contract, provided there is adequate signage warning of the charge.
Failing to pay can be seen as a breach of contract and the car parking firm can take the motorist to court to recover their losses.
"A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges.
The sheriff said Ms Mackie had "entirely misdirected herself" on both the law and "the contractual chain" in the case.
He said: "The defender is bound by that contract and incurred the parking charge on each occasion.
"The defender refused to pay the parking charges not because she was unaware of the parking scheme or the terms of the notices or the financial consequences of parking at any time, but because she did not believe that the charges were valid in law.
"The parking charges flow from a valid contract between the pursuers and the defender and she is liable for them."
Details:-
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-39478203
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Barry Beavis loses Supreme Court parking battle (4 November 2015) (BBC)
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-34721126