POPLA evidence packs go online
In a welcome move, POPLA now hosts parking company evidence packs online.This means that motorists will be able to download the evidence pack, rather than having to rely on the vagaries of the...
View ArticleUKCPM representative asks not to proceed with residential case
UKCPM v Mr C.D4GF9001 MaidstoneMr C asked Private Parking Appeals (PPA) for assistance over the weekend. Having missed the official for filing documents - PPA engineered a fairly long and very...
View ArticleExcel lose - Elliot v Loake/CPS v AJH films rubbished by judge
Excel v M. X C8DP5C7T. Manchester County Court - 25/05/2017See pepipoo for full detailsExcel via BW Legal took M. X to court.for a parking event at the Peel Centre in September 2014. M.X was not the...
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Civil Enforcement Limited director named in Panama Papers
The Prankster has previously reported on the tangled web of companies which Civil Enforcement Limited (CEL) are involved in.None of the normal people associated with CEL appear as directors, persons of...
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Forge Fach get rid of Millennium Parking Services
This facebook post says it all.Sadly some parking companies are not able to provide a proper balanced parking service. Indiscriminate ticketing is bound to hurt the businesses served by the car park,...
View ArticleAll change at Gladstones and the IPC
Will Hurley resigned as director of Gladstones Solicitors Limited on 28 May 2017.John Davies resigned as director of United Trade and Industry Limited (trading as the International Parking Community),...
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UKCPS were banned for ghost ticketing
The Prankster previously blogged that UKCPS were temporarily suspended by the IPC. They were banned on 13 October 2016 and reinstated on 20 December 2016. The DVLA forbade them from requesting keeper...
View ArticleNew IPC code of practice weakens data protection levels
The IPC has released version 6 of their code of practice.Previously the IPC claimed that data protection was very important to them.OldPart C: 1.9 Any Keeper Data supplied to you must be handled and...
View ArticleMotorist wins appeal - CPS vs AJH Films does not transfer liability from...
Excel Parking Services v Smith (appeal) Stockport, 08/06/2017 C0DP9C4E and C1DP0C8E. Appeal M17X062 Original Hearing (2 claims)Mr Smith was the keeper, but not the driver on the day.DDJ Cowell found...
View ArticleIndia Beavan agrees to drop Millenium Parking Services claim
Millennium Door And Event Security v Mr X. 09/06/2017. C7GF0Y0M. Swansea. DJ ScannelMillennium took a motorist to court for parking in a spot which the resident had rights to park. The keeper was not a...
View ArticleVCS slapped with costs for unreasonableness. Elliot v Loake and CPS v AJH...
Vehicle Control Services v Hall C9DP7T5D 12/06/2017. Blackwood County Court, before DJ Mackay.A BW Legal "Special Incompetence" production.PreambleLucy Hall, a teacher from Wales, was pregnant four...
View ArticleNew Generation Parking Management found guilty of consumer offences
New Generation Parking Management were in court today (14/06/2017) facing five charges for various breaches of the Consumer Protection Act 2008The charge were brought by Trading Standards Rhondda Cynon...
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PACE given a pasting in Manchester
PACE Recovery and Storage v Lengyel. C7GF6E3RA long time ago, the Parking Prankster was contacted by a Hungarian citizen, Mr Lengyel who had received a PCN while hiring a car and visiting a friend in...
View ArticleIncompetent solicitor John Davies forced to drop yet another claim
John Davies is the director of Gladstone Solicitors. He is also the co-owner (along with Will Hurley) of the International Parking Community (IPC). This week John's law firm was forced to drop another...
View ArticleIPC issue yet another code of practice
It appears the buffoons at the IPC are having trouble proofreading their code of practice. Version 6.1 has now been released, hot on the heels of Version 6 - or as it was known in the actual document,...
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Charles Clowes takes over as IPC COO
Charles Clowes has moved from NCP to take over as COO of the IPC.His linkedin profile suggests this happened this month.Here is the press release on this matter:The International Parking Community...
View ArticleExcel application to reinstate case thrown out
Excel v Ms X C8DP57P6 26 May 2017, Stockport, DJ AyresBack in January Excel's claim against a motorist at the notorious Peel centre was struck out for failing to obey the judge's directions.Excel...
View ArticleNo score draw in Brentford. P&PM claim adjourned to a cooler day
C3GF78FE – Parking & Property Management Ltd -v- Mr S, before District Judge Nicholson. 21/06/2017Claimant represented by Mr Offord (Solicitor’s Agent). Defendant represented by Bargepole, via the...
View ArticleVehicle Control Services have no right to issue charges at Smyth street,...
VCS v Ms E at Sheffield. DJ WeirThis case was for a parking event at Smyth Street in Wakefield. This suffers from the same Excel/VCS cock up as Albert Street does - the signage is in the name of Excel...
View ArticleNW Car Park golden duck in first court outing
NW Car Parks Ltd v Ms R. D3QZ93D2. Liverpool. DDJ CaustonThis post on MSE reports a court loss by NW Car Parks.NW Car Parks were represented by employee Lisa Mathew. Ms R represented herself.MSE...
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