Non-public parking corporations wish to threaten county courtroom judgments, however they’re solely issued if a case really goes to courtroom and the choose decides in favour of the parking firm (Non-public automobile parks: UK drivers search justice as penalties hit file, 18 January).
My expertise of this course of was sitting in a courtroom for 40 minutes, attempting to not chortle because the choose gave the parking firm’s lawyer a extreme telling-off. The corporate was ordered to pay me £150, and the defeat was so humiliating for them that they opted in opposition to pursuing one other declare six months later.
A well-written defence – with loads of images to show poor signage, damaged cost machines and contract phrases which are so unfair as to be unenforceable – is a really efficient technique of profitable in courtroom in opposition to these corporations. Within the absence of significant laws, it seems that county courtroom judges, being fair-minded individuals who perceive what these corporations are, will rule in favour of drivers when given the possibility to take action.Alexander TrerythBugle, Cornwall
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