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Parking Ticket
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My friends just had a parking ticket issued by Paid Parking Company LTD at the South Tyneside Hospital does she have to pay it ?
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Courts have been ruling for years that, as long as there are clearly-
18:45 Sat 10th Jun 2017
If there were clearly displayed terms and conditions and she did break them, then she should pay - people will say that these tickets are 'unenforceable' but that (sadly) is no longer true.
The company in question has at least one tame magistrate and is pursuing an increasing number of cases through the courts - whether this is morally right is highly debatable, but it can get very expensive if you ignore one of their invoices and they take you to court.
The company in question has at least one tame magistrate and is pursuing an increasing number of cases through the courts - whether this is morally right is highly debatable, but it can get very expensive if you ignore one of their invoices and they take you to court.
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Courts have been ruling for years that, as long as there are clearly-displayed signs advising drivers of the charges for parking, an enforceable contract exists between the driver and the parking company.
e.g. In Oldham in 2008: http://
Despite that there have been plenty of people posting on the internet to say that you can ignore such parking charges. That advice has ended up costing some motorists far more than if they'd simply paid up in the first place! (There are even still some people posting that you can get around it by saying that someone else was driving the car. That loophole was closed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012).
The matter has now been taken all of the way to the Supreme Court
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but that still doesn't stop some people from insisting that the charges can be ignored . . .
. . . and it still doesn't stop some drivers from ignoring parking charges altogether - which can get VERY expensive!
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Unless there are valid grounds for an appeal (such as there being no warning signs visible when entering that part of the car park), I STRONGLY advise paying up!
e.g. In Oldham in 2008: http://
Despite that there have been plenty of people posting on the internet to say that you can ignore such parking charges. That advice has ended up costing some motorists far more than if they'd simply paid up in the first place! (There are even still some people posting that you can get around it by saying that someone else was driving the car. That loophole was closed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012).
The matter has now been taken all of the way to the Supreme Court
http://
but that still doesn't stop some people from insisting that the charges can be ignored . . .
. . . and it still doesn't stop some drivers from ignoring parking charges altogether - which can get VERY expensive!
http://
Unless there are valid grounds for an appeal (such as there being no warning signs visible when entering that part of the car park), I STRONGLY advise paying up!
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