Motorist wins court case after being fined for taking too long to pay £1.20 ticket

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1. Since we can’t deport rapists maybe we could start with car park operators

2. If everyone challenged these made up chargers, they’d be forced to change the law or the courts would do nothing but… Having said that they’d probably make it unlawful to challenge a parking ticket.

3. I really wish the media would stop referring to these as “fines” as it gives people the complete wrong impression and puts more ‘weight’ behind these parking companies than they deserve. Only your local council have authority to issue fines for parking infractions. This is an invoice based upon some murky sense of damages from breach of contract.

4. for the record

   > David explained it it took him so long because he originally parked in a space that was too small and then had to set up an online account and enter his bank details to pay

5. Shame there’s no recompense on the company for the time & trouble of their victim. They should be made to pay 10x the highest penalty charge they attempted to extort.

6. The government passed legislation back in 2019 to curb the excesses of the parking industry. Whilst the legislation has been passed implementing it has completely stalled and appears to have been kicked into the long grass. There is a petition to get the legislation implemented.

   https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701453

   I would suggest anyone interested sign this.

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