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  • Contesting a parking fine - any way out in this case? 8 Oct 2015 (Ask HJ)
    I parked in a hospital car park controlled by Parking Eye about 18 months ago (I was a visiting doctor driving 2 colleagues to a regional meeting some...
  • County court claim for private parking fine - what should I do? 7 Mar 2014 (Ask HJ)
    I received a parking charge notice from Parking Eye a little while ago, subsequent letters followed, all of which I ignored. I have today received a county...
  • A company issued me a CCJ over an unpaid fine for a car I never owned - can I sue? 15 Feb 2017 (Ask HJ)
    I was issued a CCJ for non payment of a parking fine for a car which I've never owned. I told the company about this on several occasions and gave them...
  • Parking firm is threatening court action, despite the fact I've paid the fine 30 Apr 2016 (Ask HJ)
    I paid a car parking fine on the day I received it - £60 on January 12th 2016. I received a letter this morning from a debt recovery firm asking for £160...
  • What should I do with a PCN? 15 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
    Two days ago I found a parking ticket on my windscreen from UKPC parking control at a TK Max store for not parking correctly within the markings of the...
  • Overstayed in a car park and got a fine - should I pay? 18 Aug 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My wife parked her car in a shopping centre in Lincoln which serves many large shops. She was there for four hours and discovered a parking fine of £70...
  • Should my elderly in-laws pay this parking fine? 11 Mar 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My in-laws are an ageing couple in their 80s. They do a weekly shop at Aldi in Stourbridge using the car park in front of the store. The store recently...
  • Parking Ticket Appeal - Apcoa 3 Aug 2013 (Forum)
    returned to collect my vehicle after 7pm in the evening and to find that it had a ticket on the windscreen.  My first though was how do I print a copy of their text message to prove I parked!!!  To my horror, I had not received a non payment fine but I had received a fine for parking within two
  • I couldn't get the machine to work in a car park but I was hit by a fine, is it worth appealing? 18 Jul 2023 (Ask HJ)
    Having to go into Southport recently on Monday morning we tried to park in a pay by card car park, however after six attempts to pay (in the pouring rain)...
  • Car parking charges - should we fight this? 15 Oct 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My partner, who has MS, forgot to display her blue badge at Lincoln Hospital following an emergency dash to see her mother who had been taken by ambulance...
  • Parking fine paid with cheque written on bog paper 19 Dec 2008 (Forum)
    http://tinyurl.com/5gvw65 "A motorist who paid an "overzealous" parking fine with a cheque written on toilet paper has claimed a victory for common sense after he escaped a further penalty. " Well, he wrote a cheque, and Suffolk Police actually took him to court to reclaim the £15 they said
  • Parking ticket problem 11 Aug 2014 (Ask HJ)
    My daughter, a single mother, has come to me with a problem concerning a parking fine. On the 24th June this year they issued a parking charge notice for...
  • Refused to pay a fine, now risking court - What do I do? 9 May 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My husband received a £90 parking fine notice from UKPC recently. The signage in the retail carpark was inadequately displayed so that only the words '2...
  • Note said "Parking - fine" - That's nice, I said. 6 May 2010 (Forum)
    (Old Tommy Cooper joke IIRC...) Got my second parking fine in ten years this morning. I'd paid the ticket but overstayed by about 20 minutes and "Lovely Rita" had already ticketed me when I returned. We had quite an amiable chat and she showed me how to cancel the fine. I duly punched
  • Parking Fine 13 Feb 2018 (Forum)
    Today, Like many other days, I park along a stretch of road, where other cars park, behind my place of work. Last week, I Spoke to a Civil Enforcement Officer as I was coming to work and double checked with him where I can and cannot park and said where I was currently parked
  • Parking fine. 26 Jul 2016 (Forum)
    Today I got a parking fine in the post for Mcdonalds in Uxbridge from MET parking services. Last week I was on my way to the vet and stopped there to use their toilets before continuing to the vet. I then went to the vet and was there for 1h10m before returning to Mcdonalds on the way back (1h20m
  • Is the driver or vehicle owner responsible for parking fines? 9 Jul 2024 (Ask HJ)
    A relative borrowed our car in 2019 to go to hospital but apparently never bought a parking ticket. We have had threats for a year then they stopped as...
  • Should I pay a private parking fine? 3 Dec 2020 (Ask HJ)
    For the last 30 years, I've been using the Halfords near me. Recently, they have signs from UKPS that you can't park on the left side of the building....
  • Supermarket Parking Fine 4 Apr 2011 (Forum)
    identical address and has a transient population within it who neither pass on post nor open the door to allow me to pick out my post). I have read other threads saying I should not reply to such private parking fine letters - can I check if that is still the case for this one, or if I should
  • How can I fight an unjust parking ticket? 27 Sep 2014 (Ask HJ)
    Does 10 seconds taken to allow some to alight from a car constitute 'parking'?I have recently received a PCN which clearly shows on video the whole time...
 

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