They, ie private parking companies, cannot just dive in take your stuff. You have to get a summons and ignore it or lose case first. Just like any other civil debt.

Even where Councils, who have wider powers, want to enforce there's a notice of registration of debt sent by the County Court. If that's wrong (no knowledge of proceedings etc) then you can make a sworn declaration and it will be withdrawn.

Well people: welcome to Camerons Britain. HJ and many others including myself put a petition online to try to get this section of the PoFA debated and overturned or amended in Parliament. We warned that everyone seemed to be sleep-walking into this and it has turned out to be correct. Too late, came the cry!! HJ is right. We need to see how the defences against this vile Act are interpreted by the Courts. If common sense prevails and a decent precedent is set then there may be hope. Watch this space.

Nice letter though, clearly setting out the common sense position enshrined within exising law. This may be enough to base a sound defence, lets hope so.

Good point about Scotland though. I think the PoFA may not apply in Scotland. In which case the OP should just ignore the b@st@rds. It would be interesting to find out if this is true.

All Cameron has to do, at little or no cost, to make us feel he is on our side and make us all feel better, are a few small gestures. Revoke this obscene section of the PoFA- cost = nothing. Abolish the ridiculous tolls on roads and bridge/tunnels-cost= three fifths of f**k all. Similar thinking applied to banks etc when they try to rip us off. All the swines that use 08 telephone numbers so we pay them to call them and complain. Come on Cameron- whose country and money is it? Clearly not yours.

That's better. Going to lie down now. Cheers Concrete