Parking ticket on a car park at retail outlet

Assuming this would only ever get to small claims court because of the low value
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Not nessesarily, the Courts allocate it to that track, or both parties agree to it.
Solictor fee's aren't prescribed, so if they hire a QC on god knows how much you're liable for that. There's also thier costs in collecting, trying to collect and admin, while those will no doubt be exagerated, they will still try, and may succeed in asking for them.

Either way though, is it worth loosing £500 or so, when the option originally is £50? Yes, there's an argument for principle, but the odds are now stacked up against you, rightly or wrongly.
 
Bernie174 said:
Not nessesarily, the Courts allocate it to that track, or both parties agree to it.
Solictor fee's aren't prescribed, so if they hire a QC on god knows how much you're liable for that. There's also thier costs in collecting, trying to collect and admin, while those will no doubt be exagerated, they will still try, and may succeed in asking for them.

Either way though, is it worth loosing £500 or so, when the option originally is £50? Yes, there's an argument for principle, but the odds are now stacked up against you, rightly or wrongly.
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I'm assuming you don't really think there is any way atall a claim for less then £100 on a very simple contract issue would go anywhere else?

Costs on the small claims track are very tightly prescribed, and other then a fixed amount to get a solicitor to prepare your claim, its for thing like witness expenses etc etc. Those costs are a fixed amount to. This is so

1) You can represent yourself
2) You don't incur costs out of all proportion to the value of the claim. Hireing a QC for a £50 claim.
3) Neither party uses costs liability to bully the other. You can't be liable for costs that far in excess of the claim.

anyway here is the bit of the CPR that deals with them http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/_old/part27#IDAOBHCC
 
Most places now have been forced to impose a time limit for your free parking this has been around for some time now simple solution is not to park for longer than your allowed
If you had to pay for the parking and got a ticket for over staying would you pay it
Just because it's free doesn't mean we can stay for as long as we like anymore
We'd moan if we couldn't find a parking space at these retail outlets
Just my 2p's worth
I have a small outlet and have my own car parking, I bought this unit because of the parking and the local companies take the pee parking in my limited spaces, I get sick of politely moaning
Seriously annoying to own a 250k building and I arrive and have no where to park my car on my land
 
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LASTOLITE said:
They are a third party so cannot take you to court - it seems only the land owner can do that. so the chances of court case are minimal to nowt.
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Because the court costs will massively out weigh the original fine
 
Worst that can happen you go to court show the magistrate your receipts from the shopping you did it's shows the time and the date so no argument re the time etc that's it end of. Tbh I would just bin it.
 
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