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Is Brian Cook of Armtrac using staged photos?
Some of the more unscrupulous parking companies have found that by using staged photographs they can issue a parking charge even when no contravention has occurred.Here are the photographs taken by...
View ArticleMinster Baywatch - you've been Gladstoned
Minster Baywatch v Ms S C9GF3H7A York 13/1/2017Minster Baywatch were claiming Ms S stayed a minute over the grace period. However in their Gladstones evidence pack, they disclosed that the timings...
View ArticleLowther Street Carlisle car park - Smart Parking
Guest BlogThis car park has an interesting problem...or is it a deliberate tactic?The ticket machine requires you to put in your registration number. The ticket then prints the correct registration...
View ArticleWhy do judges do this?
Here is a typical email The Prankster receives.Hi, I was up at court on Monday. Case got adjourned. BW only sent me their defence 9 days before hearing anyway. They asked me to name driver. Judge said...
View ArticleMIL burned in Burnley. No right of audience. Witness statement a travesty
MIL V Mrs C, C3QZ9V18 17/1/17 Burnley County Court. DJ Jonathan JamesMs C's car was apparently caught having stayed parked for 42 minutes over its 5 hour P&D payment, at 1.52AM. Parking Awareness...
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BW Legal discontinue Liverpool Business Park claim
BW Legal have now started to discontinue claims.Their original business model has been to go to court without doing any due diligence, resulting in the vast majority of parking claims they issue being...
View ArticleES Parking lose yet another Spinningfield case
ES Parking v Limited Company C2GF3D6K 18/1/17 ManchesterIt seems that for a properly defended case, judges will rip into ES Parking with regard to Spinningfield cases.However, Brian Hargreaves is...
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BW Legal discontinue Liverpool Business Park claim. Is there an echo?
BW Legal have discontinued another claim relating to briefly stopping at Liverpool Business Park.Is there an echo in the room?It appears they have now accepted that VCS charges are not lawful, and...
View ArticleUKPC - West Cumbria Hospital
Guest Blog Here we seem to have a variation on a theme from UKPC. Regular readers will be aware of the doctoring photographs scam where times of photographs are altered to make it appear that cars have...
View ArticleResident counterclaims against UKPC for £1000. Score draw
UKPC v Mr McCarthy 15/12/2016 LutonMr McCarthy's vehicle was often to be found parked in common residential areas. This behaviour was allowable under his lease agreement. UKPC attempted to unilaterally...
View ArticleUKPC cancel £1500 of residential charges
UKPC have cancelled a court claim and a number outstanding parking charges totaling £1500 against a resident, Mr L for parking in his designated parking bay.This follows a long running battle to get...
View ArticleGladstones claim struck out - utterly hopeless particulars
Parking & Property Management Limited v C Limited C6GF02Z5 19/1/2017 Birmingham. DJ Musgrave PPML imagined some parking slight or other had occurred. C Limited did not agree. PPML therefore...
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UKPC and POPLA fail to understand registration numbers with spaces
The Guardian has reported that both UKPC and POPLA fail to understand registration with spaces in them.The motorist paid by phone using Parkmobile."She inputted the registration number with a space on...
View ArticleCredit Services Association uphold complaint against MIL Collections
The Credit Services Association have upheld a complaint regarding MIL Collections.When MIL were contacted by telephone to inform them of a change of address, MIL's operative became aggressive and...
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VCS discontinue another Albert Street claim
Vehicle Control Services v Ms O. C8DP9D8C 23/1/2017. Birmingham. Allocation hearing, Employment Judge HodgsonThis sorry state of affairs began in 2014 when Ms O purchased a ticket to park in Albert St,...
View ArticleExcel lose claim on signage and authority
Excel Parking V Booth. C6DP9P15 24/1/17. Bury CC.Mr Booth parked in a car park but did not ralise it was pay and display. The signage was hidden behind a van. Excel Parking disagreed and filed a court...
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Will Hurley defends outdated technology at Crossways, Paignton
Radio Devon and BBC Spotlight have featured the Crossways car park in Paignton.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nwhsy - time...
View ArticleParkingEye win and are awarded costs for unreasonableness. Rights of audience...
C3FC1AOQ Parking Eye v Mr R. Caernarfon. 25-01-2017A cautionary tale.SummaryThere were 2 PCN’s of £85. Mr R's vehicle overstayed twice in a free 1 1/2hour car park, as detected by ANPR. The keeper...
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Wheels fall off for Gladstones at Spinningfields site.
C7GF3R96 ES Parking Enforcement v Ms A. Manchester 26/1/17Manchester Court heard another bumper crop of ES Parking Enforcement cases today, with 6 listed.The Prankster assumes these are all...
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Mick Cook from Armtrac presents 'alternative facts' to the judge. Judge not...
KBT Cornwall t/a Armtrac Security Services v Mr H. C8GF5C06 Clerkenwell & Shoreditch CC 22 Jan 2017This case involved a driver Mr H and 2 passengers visiting a friend and parking in a residential...
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