Parking Ticket

[driverdale1]

My friends just had a parking ticket issued by Paid Parking Company LTD at the South Tyneside Hospital does she have to pay it ?

[fiction-factory]

Not if it was issued in error and she has grounds for appeal. The advice used to be to ignore them but things have been changing if the levy for the breach of contract is not unreasonably large. Whatw as the size of the charge and how long did she overstay (or not buya tticket for)

[driverdale1]

should read Paid Parking Company ltd

[sunny-dave]

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.

[fiction-factory]

You have probably realised that for legal reasons/fears the AB filter will change the name

[sunny-dave]

Th company in question has threatened AB in the past - hence it gets changed from P.a.r.k.i.n.g Eye to Paid Parking Company

[driverdale1]

i just found out the facts...she went to hospital bought a ticket couldnt find a space and as she was nearing her appointment time she parked in the staff car park

[Buenchico]

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://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news/15246/parking-penalty-just-judge-rules

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://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3303189/Parking-ticket-disappointment-UK-motorists-Supreme-Court-rejects-chip-shop-owner-s-85-appeal.html
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://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-39478203

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!

[Hopkirk]

Probably worth appealing, though I doubt it would be successful.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah when I go to the Eye Hospital the fella who drives me
has to wait for someone other blind old buffer......

yeah they drive like James Cordon in the car advert
and park you know like the car is disposable or something

Sorry mind wandering
I think you have to pay the fine
good analysis by BC