Requirement to work in different location not pre-2014 TUPE “workforce”...
‘Employees who were required to work in a different location after their work was outsourced were not exempted from legal protections aimed at such workers under pre-2014 rules, the UK’s employment...
View ArticleDrivers may be able to reclaim millions in unfair parking fines – The...
‘Motorists could demand the refund of more than £100m in parking fines, after what experts described as an “explosive” tribunal ruling left local government traffic officials in “absolute panic”.’ Full...
View ArticleRevised transparency code for local government in England in force next month...
‘A revised Local Government Transparency Code is to come into force in England next month, the Department for Communities and Local Government has announced.’ Full story Local Government, 3rd October...
View ArticleThe legal confusion over perpendicular parking – BBC News
‘A Smart car owner has won a year-long battle over a £50 parking ticket given because she parked at a right angle to the kerb. But what is the law, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.’ Full story BBC News, 17th...
View ArticleRAC: Millions in private parking fines ‘charged illegally’– BBC News
‘Millions of pounds of parking fines could have been charged illegally, according to the RAC Foundation.’ Full story BBC News, 20th February 2015 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View Article‘Millions of pounds’ hang on one parking fine appeal – The Independent
‘Barry Beavis is in court with the aim of striking a blow “for every motorist, in every car park”.’ Full story The Independent, 24th February 2015 Source: www.independent.co.uk
View ArticleBarry Beavis parking charges challenge dismissed – BBC News
‘A chip shop owner has lost his Court of Appeal challenge over what he claimed were “unfair, unlawful and disproportionate” parking charges.’ Full story BBC News, 23rd April 2015 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleParkingEye drives home a penalty – charge for a breach of contract allowed –...
‘A dispute over a parking fine has received a lot of press attention from the angle of the aggrieved motorist standing up to big business. But there are wider implications. The recent Court of Appeal...
View ArticleParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (The Consumers’ Association intervening) – WLR Daily
ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (The Consumers’ Association intervening: [2015] EWCA Civ 402; [2015] WLR (D) 190 ‘A parking charge of £85 imposed once a motorist overstayed a permitted two-hour period of free...
View ArticleChip shop owner raises £6,000 in 24 hours to take parking fine appeal to...
‘Never, it seems, should you underestimate the British public’s hatred of parking charges. When Barry Beavis, an Essex chip shop owner, asked the public for money to help take his appeal against an £85...
View ArticleBusinesses team up to battle English laws on penalties dating back to Magna...
‘Lawyers are in a legal slug-fest in the Supreme Court trying to determine if the English law on penalties has any place in the modern commercial world.’ Full story The Independent, 23rd July 2015...
View ArticleLocal authority ordered to pay £200k after sports ground car park death –...
‘A local authority has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 after a man died when his car drove into a horizontal swing barrier gate to a car park at a sports ground.’ Full story Local Government...
View ArticleThe chips are down for Barry Beavis – but what does it mean for the penalty...
‘This week the UK Supreme Court gave a single decision on a pair of wildly different cases. They involved a chip shop owner overstaying in a retail car park and the heavily negotiated sale of a...
View ArticleAfter Cavendish Square/ParkingEye, is it more or less likely to be a penalty?...
‘Reports of the decision of the Supreme Court in the joined appeals in Cavendish Square and ParkingEye left me confused because some reckoned the decision represented a narrowing of the application of...
View ArticleCavendish win on penalties: Supreme Court makes finger-tip save of ageing...
‘The Supreme Court has provided long awaited clarification of the law on penalty clauses and liquidated damages, upholding the “penalty rule” but further limiting its utility in a commercial setting....
View ArticleRobot lawyer can help you claim compensation without legal fees – Daily...
‘Student entrepreneur who created donotpay.co.uk has launched automated lawyer to help people challenge unfair fines.’ Full story Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2016 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
View ArticleMP Simon Danczuk admits wrongly claiming £11,000 expenses – BBC News
‘MP Simon Danczuk has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds after admitting an expenses claims “error”.’ Full story BBC News, 18th March 2016 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleDrivers could ‘face £70 fine’ for parking on pavements – The Independent
‘Drivers could face fines of up to £70 for parking on the pavement as ministers reportedly look to extend the ban outside of London to the rest of England.’ Full story The Independent, 18th April 2016...
View ArticleWinterburn and another v Bennett and another – WLR Daily
Winterburn and another v Bennett and another [2016] EWCA Civ 482 ‘The claimant owners of a fish and chip shop claimed as a result of use over a number of years to have acquired by prescription the...
View ArticleChatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York – The...
‘An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.’ Full story The...
View ArticleChief druid wins right to take English Heritage to court over Stonehenge...
‘A senior druid has won the right to take a charity to court over “pay-to-pray” parking charges for the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, claiming it should be free.’ Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th...
View ArticleCouncils rejecting parking appeals ‘out of hand’ without reading them –...
‘Cash-hungry councils are “all too often” rejecting out of hand drivers’ challenges to parking fines without even bothering to read them, according to a watchdog report.’ Full story Daily Telegraph,...
View ArticleParking fine appeal success varies between council areas – BBC News
‘The likelihood of successfully challenging parking fines varies widely depending on where drivers get a ticket, research has shown.’ Full story BBC News, 5th April 2017 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleTaxi driver convicted of assaulting council parking attendant and colleague –...
‘A licensed taxi driver has been convicted of assaulting two members of a council’s parking team and given a community order requiring him to carry out 60 hours of unpaid work.’ Full story Local...
View ArticleCardiff NHS hospital staff lose parking tickets case – BBC News
‘Seventy-five members of staff at a Cardiff hospital have been left “broken” by a court ruling that means they owe thousands of pounds in parking tickets, a campaigner has said.’ Full StoryBBC News,...
View ArticlePriest who stole dead parishioner’s disabled parking badge said he was...
‘A priest who denied stealing a dead parishioner’s blue badge so he could park for free said he was telling the “gospel truth.” Father Bill Haymaker, accompanied to Hove Crown Court by his official...
View ArticleCan a parking right be an easement? – Tanfield Chambers
‘Parking is a hot topic! There have been an extraordinary number of cases involving parking disputes over the last few decades, almost certainly because the absence of a right to park can substantially...
View ArticleSelf-parking cars to be legalised in UK – BBC News
‘The UK government wants to modify its ban on using mobile phones behind the wheel to allow drivers to use automatic parking devices.’ Full StoryBBC News, 19th December 2017Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View Article‘Rogue’ parking companies face government crackdown – BBC News
‘”Rogue” parking companies will be banned from accessing driver data and issuing charges as part of plans to stop “unscrupulous operators”.’ Full StoryBBC News, 28th January 2018Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleLords urged to hurry through legislation cracking down on ‘cowboy’ parking...
‘The House of Lords has been urged to hurry through legislation that will crack down on “cowboy” private parking firms, as it emerged that seven million drivers will have their personal details shared...
View ArticleMPs launch inquiry into pavement parking amid claims of ministerial inaction...
‘MPs are to hold an inquiry to explore the problems of pavement parking in England, amid claims that the Government has failed to take action over the issue.’ Full StoryLocal Government Lawyer, 8th...
View ArticleAirport parking boss jailed for dumping cars in muddy fields – Daily Telegraph
‘In airport parking scammer has been sent to prison in one of the first cases of its kind after he made £1.4million leaving holidaymakers’ cars in muddy fields with keys in the window.’ Full StoryDaily...
View ArticleThe Sun breached guidelines with Harry and Meghan story – The Guardian
‘The Sun newspaper has apologised to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after the press regulator ruled it had breached accuracy guidelines in an article about an alleged staff parking ban at their home.’...
View ArticleRegulator acts after ‘illegal’ airport parking scheme collapses – The Guardian
‘Investors who put their money into an airport parking scheme that went into liquidation earlier this year are hoping for compensation after the Financial Conduct Authority announced it was taking...
View ArticlePenalised for parking on your own land – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Funny thing, the law. You would not, for instance, think you could get a ticket for parking on your own land. But you can. Who says? The Court of Appeal, for one. On 27 November 2009 in Dawood v...
View ArticleYork Council Accused Of Breaching Equality Duty – Each Other
‘Disability activists allege that City of York Council have breached their legal duty to promote equality by seeking to expand their “footstreets” scheme, which would permanently pedestrianise the city...
View ArticlePrivate parking fines to be capped at £50 – BBC News
‘Private car parks will have to display prices more clearly, introduce a fairer system for appeals and give drivers a grace period for lateness as part of a government crackdown.’ Full StoryBBC News,...
View ArticleFour English councils bring half of legal actions for blue badge misuse – The...
‘Four councils are responsible for bringing more than half of the prosecutions in England for people abusing the use of disabled parking badges. Figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT)...
View ArticleParking fine invalid over refusal to issue Welsh-language version – The...
‘A parking firm has lost a court case against a woman it tried to fine after only sending her a letter in English.’ Full StoryThe Independent, 12th June 2023Source: www.independent.co.uk
View ArticleWelsh speaker wins English-only parking fine case – BBC News
‘A lawsuit has been thrown out against a Welsh-language campaigner who refused to pay a parking ticket because it was written in English.’ Full StoryBBC News, 5th August 2023Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticlePrivate Parking Charges: Why Pay? – Doughty Street Chambers
‘Receiving a private parking charge, usually referred to by the issuing company as a Parking Charge Notice (PCN) is now a part of life for motorists. Supermarkets, retail parks, and even many seemingly...
View ArticleSizing up the competition – The Upper Tribunal considers the public authority...
‘The Upper Tribunal has ruled that an NHS Trust did not provide car parking under a “special legal regime” such that its supplies would be zero-rated. The case is important because (i) it sets a limit...
View ArticleNHS parking charges should be free of VAT, Court of Appeal rules – OUT-Law.com
‘A new ruling by the Court of Appeal could help NHS trusts across England recover VAT paid on parking charges imposed at their hospital sites, though there is the prospect of an appeal, tax experts...
View ArticleConditions can only be imposed if found to be necessary – Local Government...
‘Gregory Jones KC analyses a recent case involving the application of the Blue Pencil Rule on a consent order.’ Full StoryLocal Government Lawyer, 28th March 2024Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
View ArticleBattle lost over parking ticket issued in English – BBC News
‘A man who refused to pay a parking ticket because it was issued in English has lost his case against a parking company.’ Full StoryBBC News, 13th May 2024Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticlePolice pay legal fees over parking ticket – BBC News
‘Police have agreed to pay the £1,500 legal fees of a driver they wrongly prosecuted for a parking offence.’ Full StoryBBC News, 24th June 2024Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleParking fines are changing – here’s everything UK drivers need to know- The...
‘Parking authorities in the UK have published new car parking rules today that will affect all drivers in the country.’ Full StoryThe Independent, 27th June 2024Source: www.independent.co.uk
View ArticleEssex car park to be test case for legislation to protect landscapes – The...
‘A commuter car park in Essex is to be one of the first test cases of whether the government will enforce new legislation aimed at protecting national parks and landscapes in England.’ Full Story The...
View ArticleNew rule to help drivers avoid harsh parking fines under consideration – The...
‘British motorists can expect a major change in private parking rules in a bid to combat unfair parking fines after legal action was launched against a driver for taking more than five minutes to pay...
View ArticleParking rules to change after ‘five-minute fines’– BBC News
‘Private parking rules are set to change to ensure motorists are not unfairly penalised if they do not pay within five minutes.’ Full StoryBBC News, 12th February 2025Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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